Pooi To Girls' Middle School, Kowloon
Architect: Mr. lu Tak Lam
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The main entrance to the school is On the first floor, there are eight the new Pool To Girls' Middle School on Inverness Road, approximately in class-rooms located over those on the in Kowloon City. The building lot the centre of the long block, in the ground floor, a library and a small was granted to the United Hong ground floor of which are five class- chapel over the teachers' room and Kong Baptist Churches Association rooms, a teachers' room, a general general office respectively, and by the Hong Kong Government on office, and the principal's office. second library over the principal's 28th February, 1953 for the erection Adequate and convenient vertical office and reception room. There is a of this school. Building work com- circulation is provided by three stepped gallery over the west end of menced on 14th May, 1953 and is now staircases, the main staircase to the the auditorium and the foyer, the nearing completion at an estimated left of the entrance porch, and difference in levels between the front cost of $607,064.00.
secondary staircases at each end of and the rear of which is 6' 0"; from the block, where there are also this gallery access may be had to secondary entrances to the building. the projection room. The auditorium Behind the large entrance lobby is itself extends up almost through the a small wing containing three more three storeys of the rest of the build- class-rooms. The teachers' room, the ing. general office and seven of the class- rooms are all 24′ 0′′ by 20′ 0′′: the There are servants' quarters in the eighth class-room on the ground floor, southeast corner of the building over although of approximately the same one of the dressing rooms which lead area as the others, is slightly dif- ferent in shape.
The site is almost a regular rectan- gle about 500' 0" by 150' 0" and covers an area of 74,510 square feet. One of the long sides of the site lles along Inverness Road and faces west. This is located in that area of Kowloon City north of Boundary Street and just to the west of Grampian Road. The building is being erected in the southern half of the site.
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off the stage of the auditorium.
On the second floor, there are the audio-visual lecture room-equivalent The present project consists of an
At the south end of the building, in area to two class-rooms, the music auditorium and class-room blocks for in a separate wing, is the auditorium, room and the drawing room, all the three storey middle school. There which is 47′ 0′′ by 65′ 0′′ and doubles north of the lobby; three laboratories are seventeen class-rooms, three la-
as a gymnasium. Although it is lie south of the lobby, one each for boratories, two libraries, a music connected to the main block, it has biology, physics and chemistry; in room, a drawing room, an audio
a separate entrance at the front of the small east wing are rooms for visual lecture room, and various the building. At the east end of the home economics and handicraft and other rooms and offices. Adequate auditorium is a large stage with ad- a class-room, while just north of the space is allotted for future extension joining dressing rooms and lavatories. main staircase are a students' club
This wing may be used independent- room and a meeting room for for primary school blocks without
ly of the rest of the school, and so B.Y.P.M.O. At the east end of the seriously affecting the playground lends itself admirably to use by other auditorium block are bathrooms and area, which is essential for a modern organisations having no facilities of lavatories, kitchen and servants' quarters reached by an outside bal-
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