H
TOWER
COURT
15 STOREY APARTMENT
AND COMMERCIAL
BUILDING
Architect:
Mr. Eric Cumine, F.R.I.B. A.
Photograph of Tower Court
which unfortunately does not convey the striking effect of the colour scheme.
In an issue of this magazine last year sound-proofing materials. In an endeavour There are fourteen duplex apartments on we published a preview of this block of to surmount this difficulty, the architect these four floors with four studio apart- apartments and stated: "Lee Hysan has incorporated into the design a novel ments at the west end of the building. Estates have prepared plans for a new expedient in the duplex flats, the living block of flats to be built in the Lee Gar- room of which will be on the floor above dens area in the Causeway District of the bedrooms, with private stairways pro- Hong Kong. The building will be named viding communication between the two Tower Court and will be 15 storeys high floors." with a total height of 173 feet, and when completed, it is expected to be the highest with the bedrooms under the living rooms. The duplex apartments are designed residential building in Hong Kong.
The seventh and eighth floors are some- what similar in plan except that, by a rearrangement of partitions, four two-bed- one one-bedroom, and two studio apartments have been set out.
room,
The ninth and tenth floors provide three duplex apartments with two bedrooms You enter at the bedroom level. The each on the ninth floor and a double size "Tower Court will occupy a site bound- reason for this is (a) to allow the kitchen living and dining room on the tenth floor ed on three sides by public roads Sun- and service to have a back facing without ning Road on the west. Hysan Avenue on interfering with the horizontal circulation the north and Peiping Road on the east - and (b) any noise in the living rooms just across the road from Sunning Court would interfere only with the bedrooms of and close to Embassy Court, which were the same flat. both developed by the same Company.
One cannot but admire the flexibility of The building will occupy an area of about 9,000 square feet with a volume of 800,000 dimensions of the building are fixed, 104′ the planning for. although the main
x 32', a considerable variety of arrange- "An innovation in modern domestic ments of individual apartment layouts housing will be introduced in the new was incorporated. project by the incorporation in the same
cubic feet.
The duplex apartments on the third, building of a wide range of self-contained fourth, fifth and sixth floors are all similar, flats from single rooms to duplex apart with bedrooms 341 sq. ft. in area on the ments occupying almost two full floors. A third and fifth floors, and living rooms 359 total of 33 units will be provided.
sq. ft. on the fourth and sixth floors above
"All of the living and bedrooms will the corresponding bedroom unit below. have balconies, and all bedrooms will have Included in each bedroom are ample adjoining bathrooms. One service and clothes closets and a bathroom, while as two passenger lifts will provide access to part of the living the apartments.
room area are а
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kitchen and a utility balcony with access to the servants' room and toilet. The "Many flats in Hong Kong, because of extreme east apartments and the ones on their reinforced concrete construction, ar the west side are slightly larger since they difficult to insulate from noise without utilise part of the staircase and lift hall heavy expenditure for the installation of extensions at the rear of the building. The rear of the building from Leighton Rd.
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