The robing room
The assembly hall on the first floor
banquet. All tables are finished in natural teak and are interlocking and interchangeable, and can be set up in long lengths or separated as individual tables as the function may require. The floor is of teak parquet, while the room is surmounted by a suspended ceiling into which are set the fluorescent lamps which provide the indirect lighting.
As part of the assembly lounge to the banquet hall, there is a bar which has been provided with modern refrigerating equipment for cooling drinks.
The lodge halls are designed to maintain the dignity of, and lend impressiveness to, the ceremonies which take place within their precincts. The suspended ceilings not only serve their natural function but carry and hide the air-conditioning ducts, and conceal the lights which flood horizontally along the ceiling and vertically down the velvet drapes which cover the entire wall. In the larger hall the recessed central panel of the suspended ceiling is decorated with celestial symbols set on a dark blue background.
The furniture for the lodge halls are, of course, of special design. The principals' chairs are of traditional classical style, with the officers' symbols carved thereon, while the seats in the body of the lodge are wide and comfortable. In the main hall, the leather upholstery to the furniture and the wall drapes are in blue, whilst in the smaller lodge they are of crimson. The raised tiers on which the seats around the lodges are placed are floored with teak parquet, while the working space in the centre of both lodges are covered with carpets of tesselated design which were specially made in England.
The smaller lodge room, No. 2, though simpler in decoration and in appointments, follows the style of the main hall.
Mr. Norman W. Peach collaborated with Mr. Henry Tebbutt, the architect, in designing all interior decoration and furniture.
The entire sanitary and fresh water installations were carried out by Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd. and comprise ample accommodations to main lavatory adjacent to the robing room, Each lavatory is operated by chromium plated flushing valves and deodorizers are fixed within each compartment. Ample washing facilities are provided with hot and cold water, the former being developed from elec- tric heaters supplied by Messrs. Heatrae Co., Ltd., Norwich.
Main kitchen in basement is fitted with electric cooking ranges, and ample sink and washing facilities have been provided to take care of any banquet regardless of numbers, each sink being fitted with its own electric heater which can be switched off or on as requirements necessitate.
The smaller lodge hall, No. 2
Economy in operation together with ample provision for both European visitors and native servants has been the keynote throughout the installation.
The air conditioning system is designed to provide automatically controlled comfort conditions of temperature and humidity in the two Lodge Halls.
The plant is so arranged that each Lodge Hall is independently served by a Carrier Weather-maker unit with refrigeration supplied from a central plant. The refrigeration plant is equipped with automatic capacity control so that it operates at maximum efficiency under all conditions of load fluctuation. The banquet hall is provided with a ventilation system arranged for the addition of air conditioning equipment at a future date.
All wiring for lighting, cooking, water heating, air- conditioning, etc. is concealed throughout the building, except in the basement. It consists of T.R.S. cable enclosed in metallic conduit. There are approximately 360 lights in the building, besides sockets, etc., and of these about 300 are concealed fluorescent. Callenders cable, amounting to some six miles, was used. together with Tucker's wiring accessories. Special decorative lighting fittings were used in the banquet hall, assembly rooms, corridors, main stair- way, etc., and for these Holophane Prismatic Glassware was used. The main lighting in the lodge rooms is indirect, and special effects are obtained by the use of
The mezzanine floor of the main stairway
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The bar on the ground floor