UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE
Photo by Ming Yuen Studio
Recent group photograph of the staff and students of the Faculty of Architecture. The period since the last issue has At Kai Tak airport, in the some- ant, and Miss Rosalie Bowring, Assis- been notable for the interest shown by what austere setting of the reception tant Lecturer under Professor Gordon the Kowloon Residents Association, restaurant, is a 216 square feet mural Brown, organised two design projects the local press, and the public gen- depicting aspects of life in Hong within the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th year erally in the Fourth Year one-week Kong, painted by a Fourth Year programmes, with a view to selecting exercise in Civic Planning at Tsim Student of the School of Architecture, a suitable scheme and technique. Sha Tsui.
Poon Sze-Chiu.
The scheme prepared by S. C.
The School includes in its curricu- The Airport Management, in Octo- Poon, was finally chosen, and the lum an elemental course in the prin ber last year, asked the Faculty of work of transferring his design to 8 ciples of town planning and civic Architecture to suggest a suitable panels of hardboard for fixing to the treatment for the wall of the restaur wall has been carried out in the
design, under the direction of C. H. Wong, M.C.D. (Liv.); B.Arch. and the application of these principles was put to the test with a scheme for the re-development of the tip of the Kowloon peninsula. The results were not intended to be carefully considered solutions to Kowloon problems, but merely the quick application of prin- ciples and techniques previously taught in the Studios.
Starting with physical and statis- tical surveys of the area, the four groups were given assumed conditions
the railway removed, and, with it, Holts Wharf; the New Star Ferry Pier to remain; any new development to be based on the area having a "show-window" character as well as a reception centre. Some of the points put forward in the models and perspectives met with the approbation of the interested public, and made the headlines, editorials, and cor- respondence columns of the local press, as meriting more serious study and consideration.
Mural at Kai Tak Airport painted by Poon Sze-Chiu.
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(Photo by Mr. L. D. Ching)
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