Building Raja Rais (2)

Notes

Around the late 1930s, Antoine Tabet designed and built the first Raja Rais apartment buildings (5 or 6) on a 7000 sqm piece of land in the German colony in Haifa, opposite the Italian Hospital.

In 1939, George Rais, the owners’ son, came back from London where he was studying architecture. He was commissioned by his father to design and build one more building on the same piece of land with his partners Theo Canaan and engineer Erdikian; this was their first commission. Their designed building was the largest building in the compound, with 14 apartments across three floors. The architect used prefabricated concrete emulating stone, the same material he later used in 1951 for the Arida building in Beirut.
 

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George Rais

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