Ramot Polin was built in 1972-75.[1] It was designed by Zvi Hecker. It is an unusual prefabricated apartment complex with 720 non-rectangular components.[2] The apartments were expanded later,[3] incorporating more cubic rather than pentagonal components. The design idea of the neighborhood may seem to be purely geometrical, but it has been likened to a chemical structure.[4]

The Ramot Polin complex has been named one of the "World's Strangest Buildings"[5] and has been described as a "housing project for honeybees".[6] The entire neighborhood is organized on a hill in central Ramot in a shape resembling a five-fingered hand or three-branched leaf. Each finger, which represents a different level of the [uilding that lasted until the mid-1980s, is a series of 5-6 L-shaped apartment buildings incorporated in each other, creating a wide zigzag. In each of these fingers there is an inner courtyard, which was designed to remember the traditional courtyards of the older Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem.