TEL AVIV - THE WHITE CITY
Yohanan HaSandlar 2
Situated within the historic fabric of Tel Aviv's White City, Yohanan HaSandlar 2 explores the dialogue between preservation and contemporary construction. The project carefully retains the Bauhaus facade while introducing a precise, modern extension defined by glass, aluminium, and restrained detailing. Advanced structural solutions allow the original architecture to remain intact, while new volumes are integrated with clarity and respect. The result is a composed balance of heritage and innovation, anchored in material integrity and architectural continuity.
Preservation Study / Beit Lederman
The art held in the archive
Before Yohanan HaSandlar 2 becomes new architecture, it is read as Beit Lederman: a 1937 design by engineer R. Cohen, built around 1938 within the White City buffer. Its value sits in modest modernist gestures - the rounded balconies, the narrow facade, the stairwell axis, the timber doors, the railings, and the plaster tones that still carry the hand of the period.
The project treats these fragments as evidence. Measured drawings, historic photographs, material tones, and craft details guide the renewal so the building's memory remains legible inside the contemporary addition.
A careful dialogue between archive, material, and new construction.
Preservation Evidence
- 1937 planning by engineer R. Cohen
- Built circa 1938 as Beit Lederman
- Rounded balcony geometry
- Original stair, railing, and terrazzo
- Entrance door and frame profile
- White City buffer zone
Archive as a working material
Documented Palette
- Smooth plaster / joinery
- Dark-toned plaster
- Washed plaster finish
- Red marble entrance
- Stairwell windows
- Railings 0143
- Tel Aviv Central District
- International Style
- Preservation B
- Building file no. 13
Gallery
Project Data
- Status
- Building permit approved
- Architecture
- Ronen Katzur Architects
- Structural Engineering
- Eran Schiller
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