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VERY SITE in Hong Kong pre-
sents a problem to the architect who has to design the building for it. Caroline Mansions presented no great problem of levels, but the nar rowness of the site bounded by Pennington Street, Yunping Road and Hysan Avenue, in the Causeway Bay area, did, with its shape of a narrow triangle having a smaller triangle on its north-west apex.
The solution was to keep the height of the north-west and south- west blocks comparatively low and place the central 17-storey residen- tial tower on the widest portion of the site.
This meant that the architect was able to give each flat in the tower block an unimpeded harbour view to to the north as well a southern aspect from the opposite window of the living-dining room which runs on a rough north-south axis the full length of the flat with an area of 1.618 square feet.
Each flat has three bedrooms, two bathrooms, lobby, kitchen, pantry, two servant's rooms and utility area.
The tower block has two flats on each floor from the fifth to the fifteenth inclusive and two pent- houses, one with one bedroom and one with two, on the sixteenth floor. On the fourth floor is a private club which has the use of the flat roof over the triangular portion of the site bounded by the Pennington Street-Yunping Road corner. The ground floor of this contains shops with offices on the three floors above,
The five-storey portion on and facing down Hysan Avenue has shops at ground floor level (with a repair garage below in the basement) and thirteen duplex apartments on the