71 KADOORIE AVENUE
Architect:- Mr. Faitfone Wong
BATH
STUDY
HALL
CL.
MASTER BED ROOM
PENTHOUSE
PLAN
BATH
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SVT.
BED
ROOM
GARDEN
BATH
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HALL
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BATH
SITTING
ROOM
BED ROOM
DINING
ROOM
LAV. (BREAKFAST
PANTRY
GROUND FLOOR
PLAN
KIT.
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A most attractive and unusual re- A pantry of exceptional size is sidence has just been completed in situated behind the dining room. Kowloon at No. 71 Kadoorie Avenue. and beyond that is the kitchen so The architect is Mr. Faitfone Wong, that cooking odours and noises are whose efforts have resulted in a re- entirely isolated. This pantry-kit- sidence which has many commend- chen area is situated immediately able features. The central theme of above the work room below, to which the planning is based upon a circular it is connected by a separate stair- sitting room with circular dining case. and breakfast rooms adjoining it.
The site is set on an elevation above Kadoorie Avenue and by ex- cavating into the hiilside. the eleva- tion at road level is formed into a large two-car garage under the left wing of the house; a large work room with servants' kitchen, bathroom and lavatory on the right side; and the main entrance lobby, also round in shape, in the centre. Off the lob- by is a large cloak room and a stair- case leading to the main floor above.
This same stairway leads to four servants' rooms on the floor above.
On the main floor, the stairhall gives access to two square bedrooms. each with attached bathroom and built-in clothes closets. A guest la- vatory is set between the two bath- rooms.
The master bedroom is in the pent- house immediately above the living room, similarly circular in shape and of the same dimension except that a bathroom-dressing room has been partitioned from this area.
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This stairway leads to another cir- cular hall which provides access to
Across the hall from the bedroom the sitting room. This sitting room has a clear diameter of 23'0" and, as
is a study which can be converted into an additional bedroom if can be imagined. both the shape and size could provide an interior decora- quired, as there is an attached bath-
room and a large clothes closet. tor with full scope for imaginative p'anning. Practically the whole The finish of the exterior of the south side of the room is one glazed building is of dressed stone embrac- area with a french window leading ing the walls surrounding the en- onto a large terrace which extends trance way and the garage, and across the house to include the din- above this, light coloured stippled ing room as well.
plaster extends to the roof.
As has already been mentioned. this dining room which is also cir- cular in shape is immediately adja- cent to the sitting room, separated from it by an arched opening. The diameter of this dining room is 17'6". Both these rooms have access to a smaller breakfast room 12'0" in diameter.
General Contractors: Shanghai Yaik
Sang Co.
Plumbing Work: Kitson & Co., Ltd. American-Standard Coloured Bath- room Fixtures: Inniss & Riddle (China), Ltd.
"Schlage" Locks: Shewan. Tomes &
Co., Ltd.
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