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Photograph from the original model of the seaward side of the pier.
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Perspective drawing of the same eleration, showing alterations in the original desion.
In the main frontage of the build- ing. the public hall will be two storeys in height, but on either side of this public hall on the first floor. there will be staff quarters which will consist of a dormitory with at- tached lavatory and shower, and a mess room with its own kitchen.
there will be a third-class exit on either side of the third class entry. whilst the first class passengers will be leaving by two staircases placed one on each side of the third class section.
Construction of the new piers on both sides of the harbour will com- mence early in July this year and the first stage of the building pro- gramme will be finished in the autumn of 1956. The Company will then change over and operate the service from the new premises while the second arm of each pier is being built. With the completion of the first half of the piers, the accom- modation and facilities will be much improved and it will no longer be necessary to close down berths for protracted annual repairs.
The Director of Public Works and his staff have worked in closest con- sultation with the Star Ferry Com- pany in the development of the scheme, the piers having been de- signed by the Port Works Office and the superstructure by the Architec- tural Office of the P.W.D.
Keynote of the design is efficiency of pier operation combined with A noteworthy feature of the design spaciousness and the comfort of the will be the fact that the passengers passengers. The total floor space of Improvements of facilities will not off-loading from the ferries will each pier will be 72,000 square feet be confined to plers alone but will leave the building directly from the compared with 12.000 sq. ft. for the
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the supplementary piers themselves onto the concourse, present jetty at Ice House Street and shore traffic terminals. a most im- and will thus be kept entirely the estimated cost of the two ferry separate from the
in-going first termini is understood to be in the portant factor in ensuring a speedy class passengers. At these points region of $7,000,000.
cross harbour journey.
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