Artist's impression of the Sheraton Philippines Hotel, expected to completed in December this year. Sited in Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City, the 16-storey building will have a floor area of 31,000 square meters. It will contain two basements, luxury suites, supper club, coffee room, bars, grill rooms, shops, and swimming pool. Sheraton Corporation of America will operate the hotel under a contract with Hotel Enterprises Philippines, Inc. Architects are Leandro V. Locsin & Associates. DCCD Engineering Corp. are the consulting engineers and D.M. Consunji, Inc. the general contractors.
ed. A comparison of costs based on tenders showed that caissons were cheaper than piling with pile-caps or piling with raft foundations by approximately 30 per cent, and the time taken was shorter by nearly two months.
"GRAND SEOUL" PLAN
SEOUL City Government has published a new 12-year city plan to build a cosmopolitan "Grand Seoul," large enough to accommodate a population of 5 million by 1977.
The Mayor of Seoul, Kim Hyon-ok said at a recent conference that the planning starts with a clean slate, as of 1966, superseding the former 10-year city plan.
The projected 12-year city plan was composed of three periods the first five-year plan between 1966 and 1970, the supplementary period between 1971 and 1972 for the first five-year plan, and the second five-year plan between 1973 and 1977.
By 1970 250,000 house units would have been con- structed and the per capita income of Seoulites would be considerably raised through the promotion of some 3.000 small and medium enterprises in the capital city.
LAND FOR PLOVER COVE
A NUMBER of private lots in the Plover Cove area of Tai Po in the New Territories will be resumed by the Hong Kong Government shortly for the construction of stage II of the vast Plover Cove fresh water lake scheme.
The resumption, which involves some 3,466,649 sq. ft. of agricultural land and 152,034 sq. ft. of building land will necessitate the complete removal of the six villages of Chung Pui, Chung Mei, Wang Leng Tau, Kam Chuk Pai, Tai Kau and Siù Kau in the affected area. The in- habitants of these villages, comprising 1.069 persons from 145 families, will be resettled in blocks of flats and ground floor shops which are now being built for them at Tai Po Market.
The stage II construction of Plover Cove involves the conversion of the large coastal inlet of Plover Cove in Tolo Harbour into an impounding reservoir. The area covered by the resumption takes into account the possible future raising of the height of the main dam so as to increase the useful storage capacity of the reservoir.
TAIPEI ROAD BRIDGE
CONSTRUCTION has begun on a long bridge over the Tam- sui River to link Taipei with suburban Panchiao. The bridge, named Hua Chiang, is scheduled to be complete in June, 1968. It is being constructed to relieve the traffic load on the one-way Kuang-fu Bridge.
Far East Architect & Builder July, 1966
The new bridge, starting at the end of Hoping West Road in the Wanhua area, runs 880 metres across the Tamsui River to Chiang-tes-tsui in Taipei County. It will be a 15-metre two-lane bridge. On the Panchiao side, there will also be a 2.2 mile driveway leading to the highway.
The whole project calls for a budget of over NT$70 million of which some NT$60 million will come from the Sino-American development fund. The rest will be financed by the Taiwan Provincial Government.
17-STOREY FLATS FOR SABAH
Seventeen-stoREY blocks of flats, the highest ever in Sabah, are to be built at Jesselton. This is disclosed in a report by the Town and Country Planning Department in Kuala Lumpur which carried out a survey on low-cost housing in the State.
The report has been accepted by the State Govern- ment and the Jesselton Town Board.
Two sites have been earmarked for the low-cost housing projects. One is a four-acre site at Tanjong Aru and the other in Tugran Road. The Sabah and Central Governments have agreed in principle that the Tanjong Aru project should be started first to overcome the housing backlog in Jesselton. For various reasons it is not feasible to build a 17-storey block of flats in this area, the report adds. Instead five-storey blocks are recommended.
The Tuaran Road project will have 17-storey flats and six-storey blocks nearby. The Jesselton Town Board is to approach the State Government to ask the Federal Ministry of Local Government and Housing to make about $M500,000 available for site clearance preparations and piling work on the two sites.
HK COLLEGE SUCCESSES
Two students of the Department of Building. Surveying and Structural Engineering of the Hong Kong Technical College, as a result of their performance in the Institu- tion's January examinations, have been awarded prizes by the UK Institution of Structural Engineers.
Mr. Ho Chim-lam has been awarded the "Husband Prize" for obtaining the highest marks in Structural De- sign and Practice.
Mr. Ng Hon-keung has been awarded the "Wallace Premium (Junior) Prize" for being the most successful candidate in the graduate examination.
This is the second time a student of the Hong Kong Technical College has been awarded the "Wallace Pre- mium Prize". Mr. Leung Kam-biu was awarded the "Wallace Premium (Senior) Prize" in 1964.
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