The Bauhaus facade of the Hotel Cinema
I stepped on Tel Aviv without knowing that it was the only Bauhaus city in the world . Me, who prided myself on the fact that I a-do-ra-ba the Bauhaus. Big blow to my ego. At the end of the 1930s, many European Jews arrived there fleeing from Nazism; among them were architects trained at the Bauhaus. Since the city was yet to be built (it was only a few decades old), it functioned as a blank canvas. Thus, 5,000 buildings were built following the premises of the Bauhaus or International style . Of these, more than 1,000 have been rehabilitated.
One of them is the **Cinema Hotel**. is in the place that housed the first cinema in Tel Aviv, the Esther Cinema . That mine of storytelling could not be ignored, so when the cinema stopped being a cinema to become a hotel, the story was incorporated. As in any cinema, in this hotel there is popcorn and soft drinks. In the middle of the afternoon, the lobby smells like butter , to Sunday afternoons and to a shared ritual. all who sleep there they can, at no extra cost, attend classic film screenings in that same lobby (in the dark) and have a snack of popcorn. The Cinema also offers bicycles to explore the boulevards of this strange but friendly city that I now know a little about, just a little, more.
The hotel housed the first cinema in Tel Aviv, the Esther Cinema
Through the corridors of this white building, with the corresponding and evocative Bauhaus staircase, the Esther chairs, the projectors and the air of a temple that every cinema has are maintained . For the rest, it is a hotel with a young public, located in Dizengoff, one of the most photogenic seventies square and very close to the beach. But Tel Aviv has something intangible that is difficult to explain with objective arguments. It's like trying to justify a Mac versus a PC. You have to resort to sensations . Like the ones suggested by the smell of some popcorn that someone gives you in the lobby of a white hotel.
Cinema Hotel Tel Aviv. 1 Zamenhoff St, Tel Aviv.
Bauhaus Stairs
One of the hotel rooms