This building, strongly backed by the Nobel Prize for Peace, Shimon Peres and designed by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, for about three months, after five years of work, it stands solemn on the coast of Jaffa in Tel Aviv. Too bad that its public opening coincides with a new wave of war. Fuksas, who began to imagine 10 years ago dreaming up in a hotel in Florence, describes it as a homeland for all sailors and shipwrecked. A place not virtual but real, as the sea in front of him symbolizes the place of departure and place of arrival. Seen from outside the new 6-story building is a cuboid obtained by the overlapping of irregular layers of concrete interspersed with others of translucent glass. Outside is smooth and compact, inside is rough and uneven. The pieces, more than 800, are all different from each other and with their layers symbolize the superposition of two warring peoples and their difficulties. to suggest the hope for peace involved the transparent glass roof and sides bearers of light, a key element to understanding the building. By day, reverberated from the water, the sun streams through the glass surfaces marking the interior space of the translucency of the night makes the new totem inner glow in the distance. The building, once it reaches its full operation, will house the offices of the Peres Center for Peace, an auditorium for theatrical performances in Arabic and Hebrew, a 'Library of the peace', and the personal archives of Peres. Massimiliano Fuksas has called this a "magic box. It would be nice to contribute and that it was really to instill feelings of peace. Now more than ever.
