Hong Kong Builder
THE PARAMOUNT BALLROOM
WINDSOR HOUSE
(Photographs by the Hong Kong & Far East Builder)
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A view of the Ballroom looking towards the Band Stand.
In a previous issue of this publication in which we published details of Windsor House, we mentioned that the whole of the top floor was to be occupied by a cabaret ballroom and that the architects, in order to provide a completely unobstructed floor for this enterprise, had dispensed with all columnar supports on this floor and had carried the roof load entirely on concrete trusses which spanned the full width of the building.
Unfortunately the ballroom was being decorated when the article was published and we were unable to give any illustrations at the time. The photographs published in this issue were taken after the opening of the ballroom and illustrate graphically the result of the spanning of the fifty feet width of floor without a single obstructing column. Another advantage of this trussed roof is that it permits of the system of concealed ceiling
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Another view of the Ballroom looking towards the Lobby.
lighting which forms the principle element in the scheme of decoration for the ballroom and at the same time provides a glareless diffusion of light in a variety of colours, which is at once pleasant and restful.
From the main lift hall which has been very pleasantly decorated in light coloured terrazzo, offset with strips of black marble, the reception lobby is visible through glass plate doors, made locally, with chromium-plated framing sections. The lobby is a spacious oval-shaped area in which the cigarette and hat and coat checking counters are set on either side of the recessed
window. The walls are faced with a highly polished light grained plywood, the floor covered with a uni-coloured carpet, and the whole being lit from the ceiling by the same indirect trough lighting as the ballroom.
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