Thursday, December 18, 2008

Renovation case in white.

Flat roofs and functional forms: In Tel Aviv there is now complete streets in the style of the Bauhaus and Co. Many of the buildings are in poor condition - but among young Israelis is the classic modernism again in vogue.
  Tel Aviv - Even times in the cinema recently? In Israel's bustling metropolis of Tel Aviv is the most stylish and easily available. Here was the Zamenhoffstraße located at the "Cinema" to the hotel converted. A projector in the foyer and posters along the staircase reminiscent of film-fated times. Architecturally acknowledges the complex built in 1939 by Türknauf up to the snow-white facade to the Bauhaus style.
Nothing special in Tel Aviv. Indeed, the second largest city in the country has some 3500 buildings, which from 1928 to 1945 were built and the straightforward ideas of the German Bauhaus and his brothers, International Style and New Objectivity, indulge. In whole streets thus follows the shape of the function, windows merge flush with the facade, airy stairways herald of the "democratic living." Fans come from the astonishment is no longer published. Since the summer of 2003 allowed Tel Aviv to call Unesco World Heritage Site.
In the so-called vorstaatlichen time before 1948 grew only founded in 1909 as one of Tel Aviv on the drawing board designed metropolis on the Mediterranean. Architects from all over the country have made it their task, flat roof houses in countless variations to redefine or the warm climate.
But the weather conditions today to aesthetic problems. Air conditioners and windows walled caves destroy some view floor superstructures or plastic blinds effect of the once-perfect symmetry of the house opposite. In addition, the salty sea air to create the facades. But many home owners lack the money to be listed equitable remediation.
Many residents is the tradition simply does not matter. How is it that, for example, the House of Yiddish theater in the famous Bialikstraße Building has been locked. Only in a few ground floor rooms operates the theater office yet.
City promotes redevelopment
But meanwhile has set up a new way of thinking. Thus, the city administration special programs for Re-storey buildings and renovations are made available. In unoccupied building jewels drew galleries. Not only at the Dizengoff and Rothschild Boulevard, but in some dreamy side streets revive espresso bars and cafes the ground floor zones. They are operated by young Israelis who - well educated and Getting Around in the World - to the effect of the design ambience know. In the Bialikstraße 21, the billionaire Ron Lauder was renovated acts since the beginning of the year with urban promote the Bauhaus Museum.
Now the travel industry as the theme attractors were discovered. Targeted catalogs advertise with "fed Bauhaus" for the city whose name means Spring Hill. Leader of the Bauhaus-shop on Dizengoff Square. Here you find not only the usual devotional objects such as printed mugs, shirts and key rings. The gallery also offers two guided tours and discount cards.
That are all worth seeing city neighborhoods colored style, architects and emergence time. Folded plans give about former and current usage information.
The shop just adjacent to Tel Aviv-style highlight: the Dizengoff Square. The end of the thirties huge roundabout will be created by endless balcony flanked in white bands.
Some of the curved buildings are empty, here and there ruins floors. Several buildings were already awakened to new life, as the couple by Nathaniel built "Cinema." The Paris 1926 were Jews emigrated to deal with in a dream to build: the white city by the sea.

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