White City of Tel Aviv
Coordinates: 32°04′40″N 34°46′26″E / 32.07778°N 34.77389°E
The White City of Tel Aviv (Hebrew: העיר הלבנה, <span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">Ha-Ir HaLevana) is the name of the Bauhaus (also called "internatioanl style") architectural area in Tel Aviv. After the 1920s eclectic architecture period in Tel Aviv, in the 1930s a new architectural style came to the city by Jewish-German architects. They brought the new style of the bauhaus to parts of the city. In 2003, these areas of Tel Aviv were declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO for their unique architecture, under the name: White City of Tel Aviv. In 2000, the Tel Aviv Bauhaus Center opened in Dizengoff Street and in 2010 the Tel Aviv Bauhaus Museum opened in Bialik street next to the old City Hall.
White City Of Tel Aviv Media
Location map of the three conservation zones included in the WHS listing
Cinema Hotel, an International Style building completed in 1939, which housed a movie theater
Engel House, designed by Zeev Rechter and built in 1933, is iconic in that it was Tel Aviv's first building to be built on pilotis.
The Thermometer House, named after its harsh vertical lines of diagonal, slatted windows running down its four-story length
HaYarkon 96, built in 1935 and preserved in 2012.
Other websites
- UNESCO, Nomination file, World Heritage Centre
- Artlog: Bauhaus in Tel Aviv Archived 2010-11-27 at the Wayback Machine
- Site by Tel Aviv Municipality Archived 2010-09-04 at the Wayback Machine
- Bibliographies in Hebrew prepared by the Beit Ariela library: articles Archived 2007-12-18 at the Wayback Machine, books Archived 2007-12-18 at the Wayback Machine
