Naval base, the city hall, the government multi- storey car parks, the supreme court, vehicular lar and passenger ferry concourses, the Macau ferry wharf and the adjacent temporary government uses. The 38 acres also include sites for two government office buildings (one now under construction) be- tween Garden Road and Cotton Tree Drive, and a site for a new general post office west of the Star Ferry concourse.
German pavilion with roof structures removed contains 8,400 sq. ft. of floor space. The other three similar halls are to be devoted to industry.
Additional areas have been zoned for public open space under the draft plan. Apart from the existing Statue Square Gardens, the Hong Kong Cricket Club grounds, the city hall memorial gar- den and the area between the city hall and the waterfront, another nine acres have been earmarked for this purpose. They comprise 1.5 acres south of the government piers, 1.9 acres along the water- front west of the Star Ferry piers, 0.6 of an acre west of the Star Ferry Concourse and 5.1 acres west of the police headquarters complex.
A domed auditorium will be the only covered part of the pavilion above ground. Here visitors will be able to relax to the accompaniment of music by German composers. Construction costs. for the German pavilion are to be kept within US$ 21⁄2 million.
Revised zoning plan for Central Hong Kong
Four large areas of land in the Central District of Hong Kong have been earmarked for private development in the Town Planning Board's revised outline zoning plan made public recently.
Asian congress of civil engineers
Civil engineering associations in Asian countries have been invited to attend the first Asian congress of civil engineers, planned in Manila on March 6-8, 1969. The congress is organised jointly by the Philippine Association of Civil Engineers and the Association of Structural Engineers of the Philip- pines. Five papers, not yet titled, will be discussed at the congress, which will be followed by tours to civil engineering projects.
The sites comprise two areas to the east and west of Cotton Tree Drive and two areas on the reclamation west of Star Ferry Concourse. Three sites are zoned for commercial use and one for commercial/residential use. The Cotton Tree Drive sites are within the old Naval Dockyard area which the government originally offered to private de- velopers in 1964, but only one tender was received and this was said to be well below the estimated value of the land.
Under the new plans 11 acres have been reserved for commercial uses, most of it being occupied by existing business houses, a hotel and clubs between Connaught Road Central and Des Voeux Road Central. Another nine acres have been zoned for commercial/residential uses be- tween Harcourt Road and Queensway, east of Cotton Tree Drive.
Of the 125 acres covered by the plan, 38 acres have been zoned for government institu- tional and community uses. They include the police head- quarters at Arsenal Street, Rodney Block, the Royal
Tenders for People's Park complex
The main contract for building the superstruc- ture of the S$16.5 million People's Park shopping and flats complex in Singapore is now out to tender.
Piling work on the 2.5-acre site, to be completed in March, will be followed by construction of the podium block which will contain 140,000 sq. ft. of shops on four floors. This stage is due to be fin-
NAGAU FERRY WHARF
GOVT. PIER
CONN
HARBOUR
STAR FERRY PIER
LEGĖNO
COMMERCIAL
COMMERCIAL /RESIDENTIAL
GOVERNMENT, INSTITUTION AND COMMUNITY
OPEN SPACE
VEHICULAR FERRY PIER
BLAKE PER
ROAD
CENTR
Outline zoning for Central District, Hong Kong
QUEEN'S PIER
NAVAL BASE
HARCOURT ROA
QUEENSW
Far East BUILDER, January 1969.
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