HONG KONG
Building seen from above Nathan Road
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TUNG YING BUILDING
office
largest shops building yet built on the Roose loon Peninsular is the Tung Ying Building, a long rectangular block with frontages to Nathan Road, Granville Road and Carnarvon Road. Sixteen storeys high. it contains over 297,000 sq. ft. of floor space.
A feature of the development, is that while it fully occupies the site area of 33,644 sq. ft.. it adds nothing to the traffic congestion in the area since loading and unloading of goods are carried out in a private lane at the rear of the building. Trucks enter the lane from Carnarvon Road and
after unloading are carried by a vehicular lift to the Nathan Road exit which is at a higher level.
Shopping arcades are provided at three levels. They are interconnected by escalators and are accessible from the three streets. A restaurant, cafe and night club are located on the lower ground floor and at roof level there is a luxury penthouse and ex- tensive roof garden.
All the upper floors are offices ex- cept the third floor where special plumbing and drainage facilities are installed for medical clinics.
The floor arrangement is as follows:
Lower grd. floor
Ground floor
First floor
15,000 sq. ft.
24,500 sq. ft.
25,000 sq. ft.
25,000 sq. ft.
17,000 sq. ft.
Second floor
Third floor clinics
Fourth to 15th
floors (offices) Penthouse and roof
garden
16,500 sq. ft. each.
10,000 sq. ft.
The building is founded on 611 cast in situ piles. It is a reinforced concrete column and beam structure. clad in Crittall aluminium curtain walling on the three main elevations.
At ground level marble facing is used in conjunction with aluminium show windows. Belgian blue marble is used for the external facings, Tra- vertine Romano for the walls to the main and east entrance lobbies, and Roman and Scuro Travertines in a mixed pattern for floors in the main and east entrance lobbies.
All office floors are covered in p.v.c. tiles. The penthouse floor is of teakwood parquet and the arcade floors are terrazzo tiled.
Eight high-speed passenger lifts and one service lift are installed and six escalators serve the shopping arcades. The building is centrally air-condi-
Far East Architect & Builder July, 1966