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NEW APARTMENT
BLOCK
DEVELOPMENT
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TAI HANG
HANG ROAD
MERN
PROPOSED APARTMENT BUILDING
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1. L. 2475
TAI HANZ ROAD
CEMENT
PAVEMENT
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ARCHITECT
ARCHITECT: G. D. SU, B. Sc. (ARCH)
4 D. SU ASTMONTES ANGRIJK)
here as they are doing in other former- ly restricted areas.
Government's policy in the early years is illustrated in the development of what is known as Jardine's Look- out, which is in many respects an ideal residential estate but suffers from the effect of over-crowding due to the site having been laid out in individual lots of much too small an area. The pro- ject we review in this article is an example of thinking along more realis- tic lines and this 36-apartment block contained in a 12-storey building with three apartments on each floor is, in our opinion, more in accord with modern requirements.
The area of the whole site is ap-
The appreciation in the value of proximately fifty thousand square feet, land has extended to practically every part of which is flat ground, but with district in the Colony which means, of
the west side descending in a very course, that every project, no matter deep slope. The area has been divid- ed into three sites containing ap- where situated must develop the
one thousand economic value of the site to its fullest proximately twenty
square feet, fiteen thousand square Tai Hang Road has always feet and fourteen thousand square feet been potentially a desirable residential respectively, and it is the intention of area, but development pre-war was the owner to proceed with the design- restricted because of the hilly nature ing of a
of a second block immediately, of the ground on both sides of this but no decision has yet been made road and the consequent high cost of concerning the third portion. site formation work.
As will be seen from the plan, the With the terrific post-war increase building will be in the form of a "Y", in demand for residential sites, the with two three-bedroom apartments cost of levelling ground and forming facing Sookunpoo, and a two-bedroom sites became a secondary considera apartment extending towards Tai Hang tion, and although we believe Govern- Road. The lift and staircase hall will ment originally intended this district be in the centre giving easy and con- to be reserved for high class residences venient access from this main hall to of probably two or three storeys in all three apartments on each floor. height, it soon became apparent that Each of the three apartments will be in order to build economically, multi- of different size, and have a different storey structures would have to go up arrangement of rooms, but in all cases,
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