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BUCKINGHAM
BUILDING
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Nathan Road,
Kowloon.
Architect:-
Faitfone Wong, B.Sc.
Architect's perspective drawing of the new building.
Another of those buildings which The depth of the building will be combine premises for shop, office 90'0", and the frontage on Nathan and domestic use, is being built on Road 83'4" widening slightly to Nathan Road at the corner of 88'6" at the scavenging lane at the Ningpo Street. This combination of rear, except for the south-west cor- accommodation appears to be very ner of the site which has been left popular in modern planning as the as open ground. appeal to various classes of tenants offers the greatest possibility for The ground floor will be divided by rapid letting. A number of new arcade lobbies with two entrances buildings, particularly on the Hong Kong side, have been planned on this principle.
In addition to a basement, there will be thirteen floors above ground level, and of these the first three will be devoted to shops, the next six will contain offices and in the top four floors will be situated apartments.
from Nathan Road and one from Ningpo Street. On the first and second floors, the shops will be plac- ed around the outside perimeter with a large oblong arcade in the centre of the building, and within this ob- long will be set out stalls for the dis- play of goods by the smaller dealers. This idea is a particularly good one and should make the building a very popular shopping centre.
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Buckingham Building. as it will be called, has been designed by Mr.
mediately adjacent to it, with the Faitfone Wong and will indeed be a
From the third to the eighth servants' room at the back of the most conspicuous building as it will floors, the office space will be set out kitchen. There will be one bathroom tower over the old fashioned struc- on either side of a corridor which has to each apartment, and the tiling tures on either side of it, rising above been planned so as to permit the area and fittings will be coloured. the pavement in straight, clean lines to be divided into large or small with prominent horizontal window units as may be required.
Although the 1-bedroom apartment spandrels forming a most pleasing
is at the back of the building, its and dignified pattern. The design
The ninth to twelfth floors will floor area will be almost equal to possesses the pleasing features of contain four 2-bedroom apartments those of the other apartments, and modern architecture, and avoids the and one 1-bedroom apartment, each being at such a height above the pitfalls both of over-elaboration and with a large living/dining room so street, ample light and air is assured over-simplicity.
arranged that the kitchen is im- for its tenants.
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