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AMERICAN SCHOOL, SINGAPORE
room, sick bay, tea preparation room, store rooms, changing rooms and lavatories.
Most of the buildings are two storeys high, so that a large propor- tion of the six acre site is left free for playing areas and for gardens, giving a relaxed and airy feeling to the whole enterprise.
A simple but effect porch en- trance in the main administrative block sets a dignified key the school. Immediately above the porch is a pattern of concrete grilles, whose discreet proportions make a con- trast to the vertical pattern of the fenestration of the whole block and the horizontal effect of the block in the background.
All materials, exterior and in- terior, have been chosen with the two aims of durability in a testing climate and to easy and cheap main-
tenance.
Architects for the School are Ho Kwong Yew and Sons, with Mr. Ho Kok Hoe as partner in charge and Mr. Ho Kok Yin as partner in
EXISTING
BUILDING
BLOCK ©
BLOCK D
DRIVEWAY
BLOCK
CAR PARK
PLAYGROUND
RESERVE
FOR
ROAD
BLOCK (B)
EXT. BUILDINGS
TO BE DEMOLISHED
لية
DRIVEWAY
ROAD
KING'S
+
SITE PLAN
SCALE
64
128
192 256FT.
THE HONG KONG & FAR EAST BUILDER VOLUME 17, NUMBER 2