Haifa Auditorium, Concert hall in Haifa, Israel

The Haifa Auditorium, or Rappaport Center for Culture and Arts, stands on President Street in the Carmel Center. Architects Alfred Mansfeld and Daniel Havkin completed it in 1974; Mansfeld-Kehat Architects renovated it in 2000. The main hall seats 1,139 and has artists' rooms, a scenery area and a wide entrance foyer used for exhibitions. Two smaller halls, the Haifa Cinematheque and Rappaport Hall, are linked to the building.

The hall was completed in 1974 by Alfred Mansfeld, an architect who came to Israel from Russia via Berlin and Paris. His background as a longtime educator shaped the building's innovative design approach.

The Haifa International Film Festival opens and closes each year at the auditorium, which also screens films during the event. The complex hosts the annual Yotzrim Yotzim festival in March and a wine and cheese event at Shavuot, while nearby Beit Hecht runs community classes.

The auditorium sits on Sderot HaNasi in the Carmel Center, within the Rappaport Center complex, beside Beit Hecht and the Haifa Cinematheque. The main hall holds 1,139 seats, with artists' and scenery rooms behind the stage and a wide entrance foyer that also serves exhibitions. A shopping mall, Kikar HaAuditorium, opened beneath the building in 2006.

The stone cladding was laid in a mosaic pattern when the building went up, but it peeled away over the years and in the 1990s the exterior was re-covered in metal panels. A shopping mall, Kikar HaAuditorium, opened beneath the structure in 2006.