Bond Street styling for the first floor shops
Another view of the first floor arcades
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tino. The pedestrian bridge is finished in White Carrara slabs.
Building Times
Demolition of the old Prince's Building started in December 1962, followed by excavation and piling in April 1963. The substructure was started in August 1963, and the superstructure in December 1963. The superstructure was completed in May this year.
Consultants
Architects:
Palmer and Turner.
Hong Kong.
Consulting engineers: W.V. Zinn
and Associates.
Quantity surveyors:
Every (Far East).
Langdon and
Decorative panels: Antonio Casadei
Contractors
General contractor: Sung Foo Kee,
Ltd.
Foundations
and substructure:
Gammon (Hong Kong) Ltd.
Sub-contractors
Supply of Larssen sheet piling, York air-conditioning installation, Schindler lift installation, and Dorman Long bridge structural members Jardine Engineering Corp., Ltd.
T
Plumbing Dodwell & Co. Ltd.
Electrical installation (Mitsubishi)
China Engineers, Ltd.
High tensile steel rods
ing & Co. Ltd.
Metal windows (Crittall)
Co. Ltd.
Pre-mix concrete
(H.K.) Ltd.
Harry Wick-
-
Dodwell &
Pioneer Concrete
Aluminum shop fronts Petman Ltd. Armour plate glass doors (Pilkington) Shewan, Tomes (Equipment)
Ltd.
Marble and terrazzo work Vannini
Construction Co. Ltd.
Metal work
-
Jeh Hsing Metal Works,
and Shing Fat.
Wood flooring supply)
Hawker
Siddeley Bldg. Supplies Pty., Ltd.
Wood flooring (laying) Hong Kong
Teakwood Works Ltd.
Acoustic tile ceilings (Johns-Manville)—
American Engineering Corp.
Accoustic tile ceilings (Armstrong)
Getz Bros. Ltd.
Waterproofing (basement)
Jacks & Co. Ltd. Waterproofing (roofs)
(Hong Kong) Ltd. Hardware
William
Rheopanol
China Engineers, Ltd., William Jacks & Co. Ltd., Shewan, Tomes (Equipment) Ltd., Dreyer & Co. Ltd., and Jeh Hsing Metal Works.
Calcinator incinerators
bert Bros., Ltd.
Wallem Lam-
Sino-
Mosaic and wall tiles (supply)
British (HK), Ltd.
Paint and supply of glass mosaics
Duro Industries, Ltd.
Escalator approaches to first floor lobby
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