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Jan. 19, 2021
Genia Averbuch immigrated to Palestine from Ukraine as a child in 1911 and grew up to design nothing less than Tel Aviv s famous Dizengoff Square. She also planned numerous apartment houses in the city, the offices of women’s organizations and three synagogues, including Midrashiyat Noam in Pardes Hannah. Averbuch has been mentioned in many publications and is also the only female architect appearing in Nitza Metzger-Szmuk’s 1993 book “Houses from the Sand: International Style Architecture in Tel Aviv” – a milestone in the designation of Tel Aviv as the White City.
Lotte Cohn was the first female architect in the country: For five decades, starting in 1921, she designed numerous projects that became icons in the history of the Yishuv (pre-state Jewish community), among them the agricultural school in Nahalal, a public kitchen that was the first to operate on electricity, the Kaete Dan Hotel in Tel Aviv and that city s Rasco neighborhood. Cohn’s wor
10 Belfast City Centre buildings placed at risk due to disrepair
The Heritage at Risk NI Register highlights more than 500 buildings and monuments of architectural and historic interest whose futures seems uncertain due to lack of use or disrepair
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These 10 Belfast buildings are all slowly deteriorating as the city begins 2021.
Buried beneath a weather report and an investigation into a regional planning commissioner, a brief news item appeared in The Times about the death on Jan. 23, 1980, of architect Paul Revere Williams at the age of 85.
Three days later, the paper ran an obituary. That report was a bit more complete. It featured a photograph of Williams and ran through a handful of his achievements: He was the first Black architect to be admitted into the ranks of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and a wildly prolific designer who’d had a hand in designing well-known commercial and civic buildings (such as the Los Angeles County Courthouse), as well as graceful homes for celebrities such as Frank Sinatra, Barbara Stanwyck and Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Yet his death was not treated as big news. The modest obituary ran on page 22.
January 13, 2021
“There is a vibrant and colorful slice of Jewish life here on the prairies, in one of the most northern Jewish outposts in the world, with people and institutions that continue to provide cultural, educational, religious and spiritual activities for its members, and to honour the history of its founders.”
Edmonton, Alberta was first incorporated as a town in 1892. At that time, there were about 700 permanent residents. Founded on the banks of the North Saskatchewan River on the site of the former Hudson’s Bay Company’s Fort Edmonton, it soon began to attract a growing populace. Abraham and Rebecca Cristall, Edmonton’s first Jews, arrived in 1893. Their children, George and Rose, were the first Jewish children to be born in Edmonton. Abe became a successful businessman and helped to bring more Jews over from his native Bessarabia in Eastern Europe. By 1901, there were 17 Jewish citizens in Edmonton. Three years later, Edmonton was incorporated as a city. I