OBEL and OBEL

Architect

The partnership in Johannesburg between Louis Theodore OBEL and Mark OBEL about 1929-1936 and renewed circa 1940. In about 1929 LT Obel moved to Durban where he set up a Durban office, retaining partnership in Johannesburg. Both travelled to America independently around 1941. While studying in America, they built two blocks of seasonal letting apartments in Miami, Florida, in 1942.

All truncated references not fully cited in 'References' are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon.

List of projects

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With notes

Africa House: 1935. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

Africa House: 1939. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

Alpheum House: 1930. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

Anchor Mansions: 1931. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

Astor Mansions: 1931. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

Barbican Building: 1929. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

Beacon Royal: 1934. Yeoville, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

Church Building, Old: 1935. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

Circle Court: 1934. Hillbrow, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

Flats for Sisters Investments: 1936. Benoni, Gauteng - Architect

Kingston House: 1936. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

Maisonettes: 1936. Rosebank, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

Mount Royal: 1935. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

Ponovez synagogue: 1931. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

Scantlebury Bldgs: 1931. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

Shops, flats: 1930. Rosebank, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

Synagogue: 1929. Rosettenville, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

Synagogue - Second: 1930. Germiston, Gauteng - Architect

U Siegell premises: 1931. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

Books citing OBEL and OBEL

Cumming-George, L. 1933. Architecture in South Africa - Volume One. Cape Town: The Speciality Press of S.A. Ltd.. pp 50-51