Editing King David Hotel (section)

==Architecture==
[[File:King David Hotel Pool.jpg|thumb|200px|King David Hotel and pool (2012)]]

The design for the hotel was commissioned from a Swiss architect, {{ill|Emil Vogt (architect)|de|Emil Vogt (Architekt)|lt=Emil Vogt}}, with the actual construction supervised by Jerusalem architect [[Benjamin Chaikin]].<ref>Jerusalem and Its Environs: Quarters, Neighborhoods, Villages, 1800-1948, Ruth Kark, Michal Oren-Nordheim, Wayne State University Press, 2001, p. 184</ref> According to [[Hebrew University]] professor [[Ruth Kark]], Vogt's approach was typical of European architects who, commissioned to design buildings in Jerusalem, incorporated "Eastern-style domes, arches, various kinds of different-colored stone, and interior decorations with religious symbols and inscriptions," in buildings whose strict symmetry marks them indelibly as European.<ref>Jerusalem and Its Environs: Quarters, Neighborhoods, Villages, 1800-1948, Ruth Kark, Michal Oren-Nordheim, Wayne State University Press, 2001, p. 183</ref> The public rooms were decorated by [[Gustave-Adolphe Hufschmid]] in motifs taken from Assyrian, Hittite, Phoenician and Muslim buildings in an effort to evoke a "Biblical" style.<ref>[[David Kroyanker]], ''Jerusalem Architecture'', Vendome Press in association with the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 1994, p. 154</ref> Hufschmid, also Swiss, stated that his intention was "to evoke by reminiscence the [[Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples|ancient Semitic]] style and the ambiance of the glorious period of [[King David]]."<ref>Building the Cold War: Hilton International hotels and modern architecture, Annabel Jane Wharton, University of Chicago Press, 2001, p. 129</ref>

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File:1946-R-Sigs-KingDavidHotel.jpg|Royal Signals HQ, in June 1946
File:King David Hotel at night.jpg|King David Hotel at night (2008)
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