Word: craftworks
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...Aviv's city center and its trove of 4,000 pristine Bauhaus buildings a World Heritage Site. Now visitors can explore that singular patrimony at the new Bauhaus Foundation Museum. Located in Bialik Square, the museum is housed in a renovated 1934 apartment building. Inside, look for furniture and craftwork by design icons such as Erich Mendelsohn and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Outside, check out nearly a dozen other Bauhaus architectural beauties on Bialik Street and around the square. For more information, call (972 3) 620 4664. - by David Kaufman...
...wider fame has eluded the architect who died in 2003 at the age of 84. Part of the reason is that the building style Bawa pioneered - melding Asian and global design traditions in a way that suited the requirements of monsoon climates - has become ubiquitous. Verandahs, water features, local craftwork, lush landscaping: today these kinds of elements are taken for granted in resorts, spas and villas all over the region, and it is easy to believe that it was ever thus. But had it not been for Bawa, things may have looked very different...