10 Stunning Bauhaus Buildings in Tel Aviv — theculturetrip.com

Zina Dizengoff Circle was the first ‘square’ designed in the city, in 1934, by architect Genia Averbuch, who had won a competition to secure the tender. All the buildings around the square were carefully planned to form a circle, and each showcased the neat lines, orientations and spaces of Bauhaus architecture. Though this White City landmark has since gone through numerous renovations of differing scales, some original buildings remain fully preserved, including the Esther Cinema, now a boutique hotel with a nostalgic, film-themed interior design paying homage to the building’s origin as one of the city’s first cinemas. The building’s towering, balcony-lined, curved structure was designed by architect Yehuda Magidowitz in 1930, and opened with its first showing of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1931. Magidowitz, Tel Aviv’s Chief Engineer from 1920-1930, emigrated from Ukraine and was known as a visionary whose innovative designs were often commissioned by the early entrepreneurs.

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