VENTRIS ROAD APARTMENT BLOCKS
Architects:- Iu and Company
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A block of apartments has just been completed on Ventris Road. Ventris Road is a short length of thoroughfare running between Blue Pool Rord and Broadwood Road, parallel with the eastern part of Wongneichong Road along the Race Course. It is an ideal residential area, with older type of residences interspersed with modern church and school buildings through- out its entire length. It is convenient to the playgrounds at Happy Valley, bus and tram routes to the city, to Causeway Bay and eastwards, and very near to the shopping district at Causeway Bay.
It is not surprising therefore tha this ideally located street should be earınarked for residential re-develop- ment, and the first of the
very
Two views of the new apartments showing their location in Happy Valley. modern dwellings which we are sure symmetry of the design and to ba- Several novel features have been will be erected here during the next lance the width of the mass against introduced to emphasize the architec- few years, is a seven-storey block of its height, the architect has joined the tural design, the most important of apartments which has just been com- front elevation of the buildings by which is the use of coloured glass in
pleted to the design of Mr. Iu Po Chiu means of concrete screens between regular patterns
of the architectural firm of Messrs. them, and by providing a continuous roof line over the two buildings. The
in the verandah
Iu & Company.
balustrade panels. The whole effect The development actually consists combined buildings are thus much bet is greatly enhanced at night when the of two separate buildings, each with ter proportioned and provide a far interior illumination intensifies the na- fourteen apartments, two on each pleasanter aspect than if they had tural lighting of the windows and the floor, but in order to preserve the been kept entirely separate.
colours of the panels.
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