The Canadian Jewish architect Jack Diamond and the Israeli architectural firm of Kolker, Kolker, and Epstein were selected to design a project for a unified Jerusalem Municipality complex, consisting of three new buildings, to be integrated with an existing ten buildings to form a cohesive, unified site.[1] The ten existing buildings would be preserved and rehabilitated in order to retain a sense of the historic character of the city.[1] Construction began in 1988 and the complex was inaugurated in 1993.[1][2]