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impressive in the periphery,
also had an important
civic and municipal role.
Their interior design
demonstrated relative
(albeit restrained) splendor,
often combined with social-
realist murals, as dictated
by the State’s austerity
policy of that time.

The Jerusalem style
of modernism, the fine
elegance and the local
Brutalism, eventually
merged in the Jerusalem
Theater complex, which
the firm planned and built
from 1958 to 1986. The
proposal that awarded the
firm the competition’s first
prize was clearly formulated
under the influence of
modernistic concert halls
that were being built around

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