Electra Tower in Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv is a city I can photograph again and again without feeling like I've seen everything.

Part of that comes from its contrasts. Historic buildings sit beside glass towers, Bauhaus architecture meets contemporary construction, and quiet residential streets can suddenly open onto a skyline filled with high-rises. The Electra Tower in Tel Aviv belongs firmly to that modern side of the city.

What interested me here wasn't simply the building itself. It was what happened when I stood close to it and looked up.

From this perspective, the tower seems to stretch endlessly into the sky. The sharp central line divides the building almost perfectly, while hundreds of windows reflect different shades of blue. Against the clouds, the architecture becomes less like an office building and more like a pattern of glass, concrete and light.

Finding a Different Perspective on Tel Aviv

When I photograph a city, I rarely want to create a straightforward record of what a building looks like. I'm much more interested in finding the angle that makes me see it differently.

The Electra Tower in Tel Aviv offered exactly that opportunity.

Standing close to a skyscraper naturally exaggerates its scale, but here the symmetry made the perspective particularly interesting. The lines pull your eyes upward toward the narrow point at the top of the frame, giving the photograph a strong sense of movement even though nothing is actually moving.

It's one of the reasons I enjoy architecture photography in Tel Aviv so much. The city gives you an enormous variety of shapes, textures and periods to work with. You can spend the morning photographing curved balconies and pale façades in the White City, then find yourself surrounded by reflective glass and contemporary towers later that same day.

The Modern Architecture of Tel Aviv

Although Tel Aviv is internationally known for its Bauhaus and International Style architecture, that's only one part of its visual identity.

The city's skyline has changed considerably, and modern architecture in Tel Aviv creates a very different photographic experience from the low-rise neighbourhoods closer to the historic centre. Glass, steel and concrete introduce stronger lines, reflections and large geometric surfaces.

That's what drew me to this scene.

The façade of the Electra Tower almost mirrors the sky around it. Some windows appear bright blue, others darker, and the white structural elements create a grid that runs across the entire building. The clouds soften all of those precise architectural lines and prevent the image from becoming too rigid.

For me, that balance between structure and atmosphere is what makes the photograph work.

Architecture as a Reminder to Look Differently

I originally connected this photograph with the idea of setting goals.

Maybe that's because of the perspective. Everything in the composition points upward, and the building seems to continue far beyond where you're standing.

But I also like it as a reminder of something much simpler: to change perspective occasionally.

It's easy to walk through a city looking straight ahead. We notice shop windows, traffic, people and whatever destination we're trying to reach. Yet some of the most interesting details are above us.

Looking up completely changed the Electra Tower in Tel Aviv for me. Instead of photographing another skyscraper in the Tel Aviv skyline, I found a composition built around symmetry, repetition and scale.

Those moments are a large part of why I continue photographing cities.

Photographing Tel Aviv Beyond the Familiar

My Tel Aviv photography isn't only about famous landmarks or the views people immediately associate with the city.

I'm interested in the quieter details too: unusual buildings, balconies, street corners, beaches at sunset, modern towers and everyday scenes that together create a sense of place.

Architecture plays a particularly important role in that.

A building can tell you something about how a city has developed, but it can also simply create a feeling. Some architecture feels nostalgic. Some feels warm and familiar. The Electra Tower feels ambitious, precise and distinctly urban.

And when photographed from below against an open blue sky, it almost seems to leave the city behind entirely.

Bring the Architecture of Tel Aviv Into Your Home

If you feel a connection to Tel Aviv—perhaps you've lived there, travelled there or simply love its distinctive architecture—photography can become a way of keeping a little of that connection with you.

Architectural photography also works beautifully as wall art because it doesn't have to feel like a traditional travel photograph. Strong geometry, clean lines and carefully composed urban scenes can become graphic elements within an interior while still carrying the story of the place where they were photographed.

If you're drawn to this side of the city, explore my Tel Aviv fine art photography collection, where you'll find photographs capturing its architecture, streets, coastline and everyday details.

Each piece is part of my own experience of walking through and photographing a city that continues to give me new reasons to look again.