Swimmers protest destruction of Tel Aviv's Gordon swimming pool
Municipality says pool will be rebuilt, new construction will allow contiguity along beachfront promenade.
By Yigal Hai, Haaretz Correspondent Tags: Tel AvivVeteran patrons of the Gordon swimming pool slammed the Tel Aviv municipality Thursday for razing the 54-year-old building and famous landmark on Wednesday without any prior warning.
The municipality said that the pool will be rebuilt, although on a smaller scale, and that the new construction will allow contiguity along the beachfront promenade.
"From the start the discussions revolved around repairs to the existing pool and not tearing it down," Maira Mor, an architect and chair of the Pool Loyalists non-profit organization, said Thursday.
"The Gordon Pool has a history. The forceful manner by which the municipality has conducted itself, without any manners or sensitivity, is revolting and removed from the democratic pluralism of its citizens."
According to Hillel Partok, the municipality's spokesman, "the municipality acted on the basis of a June 2006 decision of the local planning and construction committee which was reached without opposition.
"The new Gordon Pool will be opened in the summer to the general public and not to a few."
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