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1993
Sarah and Avraham Kanievsky
house (top), and Nadler house
(bottom): elevations
‫בית שרה ואברהם קנייבסקי (למעלה) ובית‬
‫ תרשימי חזית‬:)‫נדלר (למטה‬
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Nadler house, 16 Bar-
Kochva St., Tel Aviv
On the foundations of a 1949 house
In 1921 Shulamit Nadler’s grandparents, Sarah and
Abraham Kanievsky, Russian immigrants to Palestine,
built a single-story house on a 400 m² plot they had
acquired through a raffle. In 1949, after returning from
Haifa and establishing their practice, Shulamit and Michael
Nadler built themselves a house on the plot’s backyard.
Since then, the Nadler’s have made many alterations, by
extending the building and adding floors and wings. To
begin with, another floor was constructed serving first as
the Nadlers’ architecture office and later as a living unit
for Shulamit’s parents, Rachel and Yitzhak Kanev. The
building’s final expansion was completed in 1993, to reach
four stories with seven apartments, two of them duplexes.
In the 1980s the Nadlers moved to a detached
house that they designed in Herzliya Pituah. Following
Michael’s death in 1993 Shulamit moved back to the
building in Bar-Kochva Street, to a new duplex on the top
floor. The duplex has an open space connecting its two
floors – similar to the layout design that characterized the
original building, at the back of the plot, where the Nadlers
used to live.