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\n\tTwo buildings that are part a UNESCO World Heritage site known as the White City of Tel Aviv were damaged this week during the ongoing missile strikes between Iran and the US and Israel. The Times of Israel <\/em>first reported on the damage of one of these buildings.<\/p>\n \n\tThe White City is a complex of 4,000 buildings done in the Bauhaus style that were completed by German Jewish architects who fled to the British Mandate of Palestine in the 1930s. Constructed between the \u201930s and the \u201950s, the White City is based on a design by Scottish urban planner Patrick Geddes. It was designated a World Heritage site in 2003.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThe buildings were designed by architects who were trained in Europe where they practised their profession before immigrating. They created an outstanding architectural ensemble of the Modern Movement in a new cultural context,\u201d reads the UNESCO description for the White City.<\/p>\n \n\tOne of the damaged buildings is the Froma Gurvitz house, which is privately owned and was restored about a decade ago, according to the Art Newspaper<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tThe Bauhaus Center Tel Aviv, which was established in 2000 \u201cto expand public recognition of the \u2018White City\u2019 as a unique architectural and cultural site,\u201d according to its site, shared images of the destroyed buildings. In its caption, the Bauhaus Center wrote, \u201cThese houses were more than concrete and balconies. They were symbols of survival, modernity, and the rebuilding of life in Tel Aviv \u2013 the White City. Their clean lines and simple forms carried a powerful story: architecture as refuge, architecture as hope.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tEarlier this week, Tehran\u2019s Golestan Palace, another UNESCO World Heritage site, was damaged by US-Israeli airstrikes against Iran. The 16th-century palace has been classified as a national monument by Iran since 1930 and was named as a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 2013.<\/p>\n \n\tIran\u2019s cultural heritage minister has called the damage an attack on \u201cIran\u2019s cultural and national identity\u201d and said the ministry would submit a formal report to UNESCO. It is unclear if the buildings\u2019 owners or the Bauhaus Center would also submit a report to UNESCO.<\/p>\n \n\tUNESCO has condemned the bombing by the US, Israel, and Iran, which was sparked by the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei by the US on February 28. The Iranian Red Crescent has said the death toll in Iran is at least 787, according to the New York Times<\/em>. At least 175 of those deaths occurred at a girls\u2019 elementary school in Tehran, with the majority of the causalities being children.\u00a0Iranian missile strikes have killed at least 10 people in Israel and six US service men, per the Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/bauhaus-buildings-white-city-tel-aviv-damaged-1234776001\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2264210124.jpg?w=1024″] Two buildings that are part a UNESCO World Heritage site known as the White City of Tel Aviv were damaged this week during the ongoing missile strikes between Iran and the US and Israel. The Times of Israel first reported on the damage of one of these buildings. The White City is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1812309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1812309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1812309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1812309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1812309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}