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the review of the proposed zoning schedules and plans at intervals of not less than five years: (d) the publication of these schedules and plans and their distribution to interested professional bodies and by display and sale at appropriate Government offices. Plans of Hong Kong, Kowloon and New Kowloon, to which this development control relates, showing the zones concerned and the appropriate development control. have been sent to a number of organisations, including the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Hong Kong and China Branch), the Town Planning Institute (Hong Kong Branch), the Law Society, the Society of Architects, the Society of Builders, and the Building Contractors Association.
The three zones urban, suburban and rural, known as Zones 1, 2 and 3 are shown as well as the develop ment control applicable to each. The plans also contain a note dealing with the question of car parking and re- ferring to the fact that in certain sections of Zones 2 and 3. development may be subject to further control,
CEMENT INDUSTRY GROWTH
THE Philippine cement industry had demonstrated growth in response to the steady upward demand for its product. said Mr. Ramon V. del Rosario, who was recently re- elected chairman of the board of trustees of the Cement Institute of the Philippines. Mr. Del Rosario stated the country's cement manufacturers had faced the challenge with massive additional capital investments to boost pro- duction expansion.
There were at present seven main cement manufac- trers in the country, with a combined production of over 32 million bags a year which they intended to increase further to meet the projected demand amounting to 40.8 million bags this year.
The industry would get additional boost with the operation of a new plant late this year, three more in 1967 and three others in the next three years
thus pre- paring for the foreseeable future when the expected cement surplus might be exported to neighbouring countries.
NEW PENANG CENTRE
A MULTI-PURPOSE building, thought to be the first of its kind in Malaysia, will soon form a new landmark and tourist attraction in Georgetown, Penang.
According the developer. Mr. Cheah Phee Cheok, the project, situated at the junction of Macalister Road and Aboo Sittee Lane. will create an integrated centre con- sisting of a theatre, an arcade of 34 shops, a hotel, a restaurant and night club, a roof garden and a large covered car park.
The air-conditioned theatre will hold over 1,000 seats. It will have a Todd-AO wide screen, a 60 ft. wide stage for live performances, dressing rooms and a bar.
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The shopping arcade will cover ground and first floors. Eighteen shops on the ground floor will face the roads and the remainder will be grouped around a rock- garden and the theatre entrance lobby on the first floor.
In the hotel, served by two lifts, there will be 60 guest rooms with balconies. Each room will be fitted with sliding glass doors to the balcony, built-in wardrobe and four-channel rediffusion.
The column-free restaurant and nightclub will have an area of 6,000 sq. ft. Located on the second floor, it will be accessible by lift, three staircases or covered ways from the theatre. The entire eighth floor is devoted to a roof garden with bar and coffee lounge.
Preliminary work has commenced on the site under the supervision of the architect, Mr. S. B. Cheah. The building will be ready for occupation by the end of 1967.
TRANSPORT SYSTEMS STUDY
THREE transport systems are to be examined in the next stage of the mass transport feasibility study which con- sultants are carrying out for Hong Kong Government.
During the next six months traffic patterns expected to exist in 1986 will be studied in relation to the three systems. This should single out the system which is most feasible for Hongkong.
The systems are:
(1) A predominantly surface system that will be developed by expanding and improving the present bus. ferry and tram lines:
(2) A limited underground and/or overhead rail transit system for traffic movements in the major urban corridors supplemented by express and local bus lines: (3) A comprehensive underground and/or overhead rail transit system.
In testing the first system, the consultants will assume there are extensive bus operations through the proposed cross-harbour tunnel as well as major tram line improve- ments including putting sections of the line underground.
Assumed in the second system will be a rail transit line along the north side of the island with a branch cross- ing the harbour and operating along the west side of Kowloon peninsula to Tsunwan: and a branch starting at Mongkok and running round the airport to Kuntong, Parts of the Kowloon-Canton railway will also be con- verted for transit operation.
These routes will also be assumed in the third system. along with routes to serve Aberdeen, Junk Bay, Shatin and Castle Peak. This system will be supplemented by local bus lines.
The mass transport feasibility study is being conduct- ed by Freeman. Fox, Wilbur Smith & Associates with the assistance of Scott & Wilson, Kirkpatrick and Partners.
A SEOUL HILTON
THE Hilton Hotel Group in a joint venture with the In- ternational Hotel Corporation may build a new 20-storey hotel in Seoul within the next 21⁄2 years. Mr. Kenneth Moss, Far East area director of Hilton, and Mr. Anthony Clegg, general manager of the Tokyo Hilton, were recent- ly in Seoul to consider possible sites.
If built the hotel would be the fifth in Hilton's Asian chain, after Tokyo. Hong Kong and those being erected in Bangkok and Manila.
The 20-storey building would house a 600-seat main dining hall and a convention hall capable of seating 1,000 people. There would be 300 guest rooms.
LUXURY HOTEL IN SINGAPORE ANOTHER multi-storey luxury hotel to cater for tourists is to be built in Singapore at a cost of about M$10 mil- lion. It will be sited in Orchard Road at its junction with Tanglin Road and will be known as Ming Court.
Included in the development will be a shopping com- plex on four floors with airline offices and banks, a night club, restaurants and a roof top swimming pool.
The main hotel block will be a 14-storey building housing 200
Far East Architect & Builder May, 1966