LANTE ALMA Ma
OFFICES
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL
ST. JOHN'S
| HALL
PARADE
GROUND
FRENCH MISSION
NEW SECRETARIAT
FT.50
50
150
200 FT
SCALE OF FEET
2
ALBERT
WER
OFFICES
ill
ROAD
3 01
CENTRAL
ROAD
QUEEN'S
FIRST
PORTION
SECOND PORTION
THIRD PORTION
The internal colour scheme is pre- dominantly lemon yellow, with green doors, buff-coloured floors in the offices, and grey floors in the cor- ridors.
(Top) North-east elevation and (Below) Block plan of the complete scheme.
and Survey Office; a transport office The total available office area in and two general offices; and a sub- this first section of the building is sidiary air-conditioning plant room. over 50,000 square feet. The west half of the ground floor, comprising approximately half its The elevations are dominated by area, is occupied by a covered car the concrete fins which form heads park with access yards to the north and jambs to the windows and by and south.
shading them reduce the load on the air-conditioning plant and the periods The five upper floors are basically during which direct sunlight will fall similar in plan. They have 7' 0" wide on the working space within the hook points and one hook point in central corridors with 18' 8" wide building. offices on each side. The cross beams,
A system new to Hong Kong has been adopted for the lighting instal- lation. A wiring grid is fixed in the office ceilings with three socket and
each 4' 6" bay. Special fluorescent tube fittings can be hung between windows, air inlets and lighting The construction is of reinforced any two points by rods which con- points are all spaced 4' 6" apart and concrete frame and slab with rein- ceal the drop wire and are adjustable all internal partitioning is of hollow forced concrete external walls, and in length between two and four feet. block so that offices may be formed lift and stair shafts. The portion of The switch is of the pull type fixed of any multiple of 4' 6" in length and the building near Garden Road is to the fitting. There are no switches replanning of the offices in the future faced with granite, and the remain- by the doors as enough light comes. will be structurally simple. Supple- der, over the covered car park, with through the borrowed lights set in menting the main staircase is a tem- Shanghai plaster. The granite has the corridor walls to enable the porary timber fire escape at the west been used as permanent shuttering, switch cords to be found easily. The end of the building. On the roof, the skin being three to four inches advantages of this method lie in the which is 168' 6" above sea level, there thick with occasional nine inch deep variety of fitting layouts possible is a sun-printing room, the lift motor bonding stones on an eight inch without changing the wiring: in a room and a fan chamber.
reinforced concrete wall.
two-bay office for instance, a fitting
11
HOUSE
phanum 11
STREET