院醬法新
故分鷥九
SPEED AND ECONOM
NEW SCHOOL
PEED and economy were the
keynotes in the building of the New Method College, Prince Edward Road, Kowloon. This involved very close co-operation between the architect, Mr. Ping K. Ng, the owner, Mr. Wilson Wang, and the contractors. Messrs. Hsin Chong and Co.
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The
NEW METHOD COLLEGE
Drawings were completed in April 1960; they were approved by the Building Ordinance Office on 27 May 1960; building began on 1 June 1960; the College was com- pleted on 6 September 1960; and it was opened by the Director of Education on 9 September 1960.
That took care of the speed. and economy was achieved not by cut- ting down standards but by careful attention to proper structural de sign, so that the total building ex- penditure of approximately $800,000 1epresented a cost of about $20,000 per classroom as against a more usual figure of about $30,000.
The rectangular six-storey school covers 9,000 square feet of the 18,000 square feet site and the rooms and offices are built round an open central court. At ground floor level it open at both sides (the upper floors being supported on pillars) so that, apart from the main entrance at the front and stage platforms at the rear, almost the whole of the site is available as a playing area for the pupils.
Placing the covered stage plat- forms at one end of the ground floor in this way enables it to be used as an open air theatre or as an audi- torium for school functions. A park- ing space for cars is provided in front of the main entrance and of fices.
On the other floors of the school. accommodation is provided for 38 classrooms, four general purpose rooms, five teachers' rooms, an art room, a music room, physics, chemistry and biology laboratories and offices.
The whole building is carried out in reinforced concrete. Gas equipment for cooking and for the laboratories was installed by the Hong Kong and China Gas Co. Ltd.