On a tour of Beer Sheva our guide took us to this abandoned movie theater.
Old folks from the neighborhood walked by, listened, and then volunteered their fond memories and fantastic stories of how this cinema was an exciting part of their life, maybe the ONLY exciting part, back a few decades when Beer Sheva was a dusty poor town in the desert.
No one seems to know what to do with the dilapidated place.
Now that now-thriving Beer Sheva wants to be the capital of Brutalism architecture, this Brutalist building should probably be preserved.
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doesn't look appealing if I may say so...
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It looks imposing. There should be some good use for it.
ReplyDeleteSevere indeed
ReplyDeleteI hope they preserve the building. It's a beautiful piece of architecture.
ReplyDeleteThe Armon Cinema Theatre in Haifa, which opened in 1935, was critical to Haifa's social and cultural life. Its size and location in the heart of the city's entertainment centre made it a broadly-based cultural institution, regularly hosting performances of whatever musical entertainment came to town. Can you imagine how the locals felt when The Armon was closed in 1987!
ReplyDeleteYou absolutely MUST renovate and modernise your old decrepit cinema!!!
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http://melbourneblogger.blogspot.com.au/2016/04/bauhaus-cinema-architecture-in-haifa.html
Would make a great museum
ReplyDeleteThey should maybe make it into a library, with benches outside where one can sit and read. Just an idea: )
ReplyDeleteYes, it's such an interesting building. I hope they find a way to keep it.
ReplyDeleteI can't say I like this architecture, Dina.
ReplyDeleteProbably if renovated it looks better...
Art is so much in the eye of the beholder; reason enough to preserve, if at all possible.
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