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Article: For Tel Aviv, UNESCO award is an honor -- and responsibility
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- Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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- May 24, 2004
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Kraft, Dina
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
05-24-2004
TEL AVIV, May 23 (JTA) -- Under the layers of soot, the stucco walls are
beginning to crumble and the once-sleek rectangular balconies have peeling
walls and battered shutters. Inside, a bicycle is chained to the curved
metal railing lining the staircase.
The address is 79 Gordon St., one of hundreds of Bauhaus-inspired
buildings that line the streets of Tel Aviv, home to the largest collection
of Bauhaus-style buildings in the world. Many, like this 1935 building, are
classics of design but are in sore need of restoration.
In recent years, however, the conservation bug has begun to catch on in
Tel Aviv, with hundreds of the city's 4,000 or so ...
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