In each city there are legacy houses, like, for example, a Moscow bad apartment for the Patriarchs. There are many such places in Tel Aviv, one of them is Dom-Pagoda.
The name "pagoda" the house got because of the styling of its sloping roof under Japanese aesthetics, however this is a very exaggerated comparison. In addition to Buddhist there are also oriental motifs, and medieval-Christian, and Moorish, and even the aesthetics of Art Nouveau. This stylistic eclecticism, uncharacteristic in general for the restrained architecture of Tel Aviv, was to demonstrate wealth and glamor despite the violation of the ideological integrity of the structure.
A kind of architectural monster, as it may seem from the description. However, such buildings were at the peak of popularity in the United States in the 20s of the 20th century, and so far something similar is being built in Las Vegas.
The Pagoda House was built for Maurice Bloch, a wealthy emigrant who moved to Israel from America at the end of World War I.
Nowadays, the House Pagoda belongs to the Swedish billionaire Robert Vail, who rebuilt the building into a posh villa with a cinema hall, a wine cellar, a swimming pool, a massage parlor and a computerized control system for all rooms. When Vile is in Tel Aviv, usually on Christmas Day, Swedish and Israeli flags are hung out on the balconies of the Pagoda House.
Address: Montefiore 41, Tel Aviv-Yafo.