CENTRAL
BUILDING
(First Portion Completed)
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Architect:—
Fung Tsun, A.R.I.B. A.
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The north section of the new Cen- tral Building is now fully functional and its attractive facade, towering above Pedder Street, gives a good idea of what the entire west elevation will eventually look like when the building is completed. This is ex- pected to take about eighteen months.
GLOUCESTER
BUILDING
+ MOHA
201 400 225
Big
BASEME
SOLE
门禁
NEW
PRIVATE
LANE
ENTRANCE
+
GO
2016
210
201
@
210 14
390
ED
685
4100
10 мл
390 14.7.
0мл
240 16.FT
360
(05)
ALS
disn
415 mrt
DELT
390
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Exterior walls of the fourteen up- per floors (of office accommodation) have deep
concrete
sun
louvres
separated by dark-coloured horizontal fascia faced with Italian Saivo glass mosaics in various colour combina- tions. This, besides achieving an artistic effect, also provides a per- manent finish
requiring minimum maintenance.
The three lower floors, since they contain the shops, have large panes of glass facing the street which stretch from column to column. These in the final design are strongly outlined and
emphasized with framing of black marble to the ground floor windows and black tiles to those of the floors above. This produces an effect of stability to the base of the building.
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Crowds now daily throng the ground floor arcade, which leads off Pedder Street through the completed part of the building to the lift lobby at the rear entrance. This arcade is well-lit and spacious, decorated with pilasters of black, white-veined Spanish "Negro Marquina" marble which reach the
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