Old Akerstein House (Junction House)
At the northern edge of Herzliya Pituach, at the point where the gleaming technology park still touches the remnants of the old industrial zone that preceded it, stands a five-storey office building that many know by a simpler name — Junction House. The name was coined due to its location: the northern entrance to the zone, the junction through which everyone visiting Microsoft and Apple offices and the high-tech headquarters around them must pass.
The building, whose scope ranges between approximately 5,400 to 9,000 m² (data varies between sources), was constructed in 1989 by Akerstein Company — an established company founded in 1925, even before the state's establishment. Since then and to this day, it has served mainly Akerstein itself, alongside start-up companies that found it an accessible address on the periphery of Israel's most prestigious office zone.
However, Junction House, as it is known today, is not expected to remain as is. A plan has been approved to demolish the old structure and construct a 30-storey tower in its place — a project that will combine retail, employment and between 47 and 75 residential units. If and when the plan is realised, Junction House will join the line of old Herzliya Pituach buildings making way for mixed-use towers, in line with the intensification trend taking place across the entire zone since the 1990s.