Model of moving sidewalk
Expo clock
WELCOME
181 DAYS
CITIZEN
TILL EXPO 70
Monorail
metres. Each of its ball-shaped gondolas weighs 1,400 kilograms and carries 15 people. Twenty-two gondolas will be operated at an interval of one minute to transport 1,800 persons per hour.
The moving sidewalks will carry visitors be- tween the east, west, north and south gates. The walks, operating in transparent tubes, will carry 9,000 persons an hour.
New building for Gilmans
An impressive 13-storey building is being de- signed for a site of 20,000 sq.ft. near Taikoo Docks, Quarry Bay, by Palmer and Turner. Work is expected to start next year on the building, which is part of an extensive redevelopment programme being carried out by Gilman and Co. Ltd.
The bottom three floors of the building will house Gilman Motors' showrooms and offices, and the upper floors will accommodate the storage and service sides of the enterprise.
Engineer joins architects
Consulting engineer, Mr. Chung Wah Pui, who recently returned to Hong Kong after ten years working in Britain, has joined architects, Spence Robinson to lead and expand their structural de- sign section. The practice has moved to a new address, The Atelier, Broadwood Road, Hong Kong.
Expo clock tower
Airborne visitors to Expo '70 will be greeted by a large wing-shaped clock tower which has been set up at Osaka International airport by Citizen
Watch Company. The tower, located within the airport plaza, houses a large round Citizen clock which is flanked by a cherry-blossom Expo em- blem and a countdown panel showing the number of days left until the exposition starts on March 15.
CMA Exhibition designs
Hong Kong's designers have produced some novel structures for this year's Chinese Manufac- turers' Exhibition which is open till January 4 on the Hung Hom site.
Setting the trend for better design is the Gov- ernment's own pavilion of 12,000 sq. ft. Architect Tao Ho tells the story of Government's contri- bution to local life by 16 suspended drums, each hollowed out in the centre to display photographs, posters and charts on the inside walls.
Another notable stand is that of the Hong Kong Productivity Council. Designed by a fourth year student of the Faculty of Architecture, HKU, Miss Mabel Yeung, it is an adaptation of the folded plate construction. The basic hexagonal design of the pavilion is repeated inside in the form of a hexagonal information console which incorporates six back-projection colour film screens illustrating aspects of productivity.
HKPC stand designed by Mabel Yeung
Far East BUILDER, December 1969
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