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Model of the convalescent block being built at Kowloon Hospital
floor area of 170,000 sq. ft. It will be linked to the existing buildings by covered walkways.
The lower floors, now near completion, will pro- vide rooms for administration, pharmacy, stores, workshops and canteen. The whole building will be ready for occupation by mid-1969.
Design for Australia's Expo '70 pavilion
Australia will build a novel pavilion at the 1970 World Exposition (Expo '70) to be held at Osaka, Japan, from March 15 to September 13, 1970.
To cost about A$6 million, the pavilion has three main elements. The first, the entrance com- plex, consists of a building in the shape of a giant cantilever rising up gracefully to a height of 128 ft. to culminate in a "sky hook." From this is sus- pended a circular free-hanging roof, 160 ft. in diameter and weighing 200 tons, which appears to float above the ground. The second element is the
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Australia's sky hook pavilion
Exhibition cylinder or "space tube”
exhibition cylinder, which has been called the "space tube," built below ground level in a sunken garden. The third element is a display hall.
The circular roof shelters the entrance area where 2,000 people at a time will be able to queue on a spiral pathway leading down to the exhibition entrance. While they wait they will be entertained by a panorama film of Australia projected on a circular screen above head level.
From the queueing area the visitors will move into the space tube, which is a cylinder 25 ft. in diameter and 230 ft. long. They will travel through this on two slowly moving pathways, past a series of highly dramatic displays in bays above, below or on either side of them.
At the end of the space tube the visitors will emerge into a display and information area. This will contain a hall carpeted with Australian wool, in which entertainments and changing exhibitions of contemporary art, industrial design, textiles, photography and fashion will be presented. The Australian Department of Works is responsible for designing and supervising construction of the pavi- lion. The pavilion architect is Mr. James MacCor- mick, one of the Department's principal architects. Another well known Australian architect, Mr. Robin Boyd, of Melbourne, is designer of the displays.
Essay on architecture competition
The committee of the Commonwealth Associa- tion of Architects has approved sponsorship of a competition for the best essay on Modern Archi- tecture. It will be open to members and students of member societies in each country. To be locally set and judged by these respective societies, the best essay in each case will be awarded a prize of £25. Winning entries will be printed in time for the Lagos Conference of the association in March 1969.
In Hong Kong, the Society of Architects is in- viting contributions from members and students. The essays must be of about 4,000 words and may deal with town planning, industrial building tech- niques, architectural philosophies or any other rel- evant aspects of modern architecture.
Entries, to be sent to the Hong Kong Society of Architects, P.O. Box 2192, Hong Kong, close on December 1, 1968.
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Far East BUILDER, October 1968.