NEW CHURCH IN
UNUSUAL
Main church is on first floor
THE NEW Lutheran church which
is to be built on Waterloo Road, Kowloon, is of a most unusual and imaginative design.
This building is one project with in a complex of school and ecclesias- tical buildings on probably the most difficult site in the Colony.
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The Church is sponsored by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of
Hong Kong (United-Luther Church in America Mission). The architect is Eric Cumine with William Ling and Michael Teoh in charge of the project. The contractors are Siu Tai & Co.
An ecclesiastical flavour is main. tained externally by the series of three unequal pointed arches with a three-unequal-pointed arched hood
Artist's impression of the new Lutheran church.
purposely not corresponding to the door openings. A system of vaulting lines results, giving a sense of freedom.
The plan is unusal in the sense that the main church is on the first floor. The nave is one large unin terupted space of 70 feet x 77 feet and 27 feet high. The ground floor is a hall of 70 feet x 50 feet for meetings other than religious ser vices.
The Church will hold 750 persons with 164 in a balcony. The Meeting Hall seats 620 persons.
Acoustic tiles and rough stucco will line the interior of the Church. Mechanical ventilation will obviate the necessity of opening windows. This will reduce street noises during the services. The nave will be lit by small windows along traditional standards of restful religious lighting.
The structure is in reinforced concrete along conventional lines. The large 70 feet space is spanned with a series of portal frames. The sections of these portal frames are not rectangular but polygonal, chang- ing in size to give the illusion of slenderness of structure.
Construction work on the site commenced mid-July. The expected completion is set for sometime in January 1962.
Floor plans on Page 54
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THE HONG KONG & FAR EAST BUILDER — VOLUME 16, NUMBER 2