About The White City Center
The White City Center (WCC) was co-founded by the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality and the German government at a historical and cultural crossroad in the heart of Tel Aviv. The WCC's mission is to actively preserve the heritage of the White City site and the international style, known in Israel as the Bauhaus.
In 2003, UNESCO declared the White City zone in Tel Aviv as a unique World Heritage Site of the modern movement. The White City Center was founded in an effort to advance the recognition of the outstanding architectural landscape of Tel Aviv, with its collection of over 4,000 buildings built in the international style; an unparalleled global phenomenon.
The White City Center will operate at the Liebling House on 29 Idelson Street, one of a series of historic buildings erected around Bialik Square, in the area that was once the beating heart of Tel Aviv. Built by Tony and Max Liebling in 1936, it was designed by architect Dov Karmi with distinctive characteristics of the international style; entirely different from the decorated home of poet Haim Nachman Bialik, located around the corner.
Tel Aviv - the first Hebrew metropolis that sprawled along the shores of the Mediterranean with its gleaming white buildings - warmly embraced the international style that had conceptualized, expanded and reinvented modernism. The international style, while famous for buildings that have transcended national identity, implemented key practices and aesthetics, such as functionality, avoidance of ornamentation and the adoption of local considerations throughout the whole process.
Thinkers and advocates of the international style fantasized about a new world: a new kitchen, a new living room, bedroom, bathroom; a new habitat that beats along with the city, always visible through the balcony - an essential structural element that regards the exterior as an extension of the interior.
During the renovation period, we will hold a series of events under the title Open for Renovations. We will offer professional workshops; demonstrations of the different stages of the conservation; tours guided by the architects of project as well as leading professionals from the field; and other public events themed around various areas of the Apartment - all designed to transform the site into a living model of international style building techniques that are often hidden behind scaffolding.
The renovation and conservation project of the Liebling House began in the summer of 2017, scheduled to be completed by 2019.
We invite you to celebrate with us the grand opening of Liebling Haus – The White City Center at 19.9–21.9.2019.
