Dizengoff Square

This guide to Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv starts with the young architect Genia Averbuch, who in 1934 won a city competition to design a circular plaza where six streets meet, and follows the square through its 1938 opening, a 1978 decision by mayor Shlomo Lahat to lift it onto a pedestrian deck, and artist Yaacov Agam's decade of work on the kinetic Fire and Water Fountain unveiled in 1986. It asks why the square's famous fountain now sits so still. Look up at the fountain's jagged wheels while you listen and see what they're missing.