Canteen
Production room
Conference room on the fourth floor. Like other administrative offices in the building it is set on the perimeter and is separated by a corridor from the studio areas
Night view
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Typical lift lobby area
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Contractors
The general contractor was Sun Foo Kee. Sub-contractors included:
Gammon (Hong Kong) Ltd. site investigation.
Vibro (Hong Kong) Ltd. - piling. Otis Elevator Co. - lift installation. Luen Tak Co. vinyl tiles.
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The Jardine Engineering Corp. Ltd.
- air conditioning.
Dodwell & Co. Ltd.
plumbing
installation and Crittall-Hope metal windows.
GEC-AEI Hong Kong Ltd. elec- trical installation.
William Jacks & Co. (HK) Ltd. - asphalt roofing and studio floors.
Getz Bros. & Co. Inc. - suspended acoustic ceiling.
Shewan Tomes (Equipment) Ltd. - Schlage door hardware and fittings.
Lee Ping Mfg. Co. studio light suspensions.
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Allied Neon Light Co. - RTV logo and sign.
Jen Hsing Metal Works - steel glass door handles.
W. A. Somerville & Co. Ltd.
kitchen equipment.
Fook Hing & Co., Tak Wah & Co., and Cheong Hing Furniture Co. - furniture.
Books
Architecture in Australia
a his. tory by Professor J. M. Freeland. Published by F.W. Cheshire Pty. Ltd. 10% in. x 8 in. 328 pages. A$9.95
IN May 1787 eleven ships totalling less than 4,000 tons with stores and 750 male and female convicts aboard, together with an equal number of sailors and civil and military officers, set sail from Portsmouth. Eight months later they went ashore at Sydney Cove to fell trees and clear the ground for a dozen convict carpenters and 16 ships' carpenters to work under a midship man who had trained as an architect's clerk. So begun building in Australia.
This then is the beginning of Pro- fessor Freeland's story-and an interest- ing and readable account it is. Not merely content to label the majority of Australian buildings as "Early or Late Bloody", the author divides the 180 years of existence into 13 chapters each spanning about 13 years. These periods he labels as "The Primitives", "Late
Colonial", "Edwardian" etc.
Illustrated with over 230 superb photographs the book charts the course