concrete piles will be driven to provide four new berths. Completion is scheduled for 1971.
The scheme is designed for the Port of Singapore Authority by Sir Bruce White, Wolfe Barry and Partners, London.
Passenger bridges ordered for Kai Tak
Six passenger access bridges which will allow direct passage from aircraft to terminal building have been ordered by Hong Kong Government for installation in the Kai Tak airport extension scheme. The contract, worth HK$3 million, has been awarded to Gordon, Woodroffe & Co. (Far East) Ltd.
Each single lane bridge will be capable of being raised or lowered to serve both levels of the terminal. A hydraulically-operated vestibule moving
Kai Tak access bridges
between vertical guide columns will allow passen- gers access from the arrival halls 11 ft. above ground and exit to departure halls 21 ft. above ground.
The bridges are made by McNamee Industries Pty. Ltd., Australia, under licence from Wollard Aircraft Service Equipment Inc., USA. Assembly and installation will be by Gordon Woodroffe in conjunction with their associates, Electro-Mechani- cal (Equipment) Ltd.
22-storey block for police
Piling work has been completed on a site at Arsenal Street, Hong Kong, where a 22-storey tower block is to be built for the police headquarters staff.
The 11,000 sq.ft. basement of the building will be 14 ft. below road level and will contain two air- conditioning plant rooms, an electrical distribution and emergency generator room, a pump room and a large storeroom. The tower will stand on a two- storey podium. Plans are by PWD architects.
Review of architects' fees
The Joint Council of the Malaysian and Singa- pore Institutes of Architects met in Singapore late last month to review their scale of fees. It was hoped that some agreement would be reached on the final drafting and implementation of a new scale.
Both countries adopt the same scale and the two institutes have agreed that any new scale should take into account the complexities of various types of buildings.
Under the new Architects Act of 1967 there is a provision for legalising the scale of fees which will then become part of the rules and regulations of the new Board of Architects.
Competition for AA Building
The Architectural Association has launched a competition for the design of its new building in South Kensington, London.
To be held under RIBA rules, the competition will be in two stages, the first being to promote ideas for the building, which will accommodate the Association and the AA School. Cost of the build- ing is estimated at about £400,000.
The competition is open to all architects regis- tered in the British Commonwealth, students of schools of architecture recognised by the RIBA, and AA members in the UK and abroad. The asses- sors are: Francis Baden-Powell, Alan Colquhoun, Prof. Jerzy Soltan (Harvard), Prof. Guy Oddie (Edinburgh) and Philip Dowson.
Conditions for the first stage of the competition are available on deposit of £2 sterling from The Competition Secretary, AA, 34-36 Bedford Square, London, W.C.1, until June 13. From the first stage submissions six to ten will be selected to proceed to stage two. Premiums offered to stage two com- petitors are: first £1,500, second £750 and third £500. An honorarium of £350 will be given to the remaining second stage competitors.
Woman to design Expo pavilion
A young Japanese woman has been chosen to design the Saudi Arabian pavilion for Expo 70 at Osaka. Miss Toshiko Ezaki, 27, of Tokyo, is the first Japanese architect to be picked by a foreign government to design a pavilion for the exposition.
A graduate of the Shibaura Institute of Techno- logy, Tokyo, Miss Ezarki spent two years studying in Spain before joining a Tokyo partnership. Her preliminary plans for the pavilion have been ap- proved by the Saudi Arabian Government.
Curved tower for new hotel
Yet another luxury hotel project is under way in Singapore. Pilling has begun on a 132,325 sq. ft. site at the junction of Havelock Road and Outram Road where Apollo Enterprises Ltd. are to build a 300-room hotel complex, estimated to cost more than S$10 million.
Scheduled to be completed by late 1970, the complex comprises a slightly curved tower block of 19 storeys and a circular three-storey block con- taining night club and restaurant on the upper floor and department stores on the lower floors.
The public areas of the hotel are on the ground and reception floors, which include a 24-hour
Far East BUILDER, May 1969