fine moulded ceiling, which is one of the few deliberate attempts at decoration in a building which impresses on a visitor a feeling of solid and sound simplicity.
This is perhaps brought out best in the accompanying photographs of the main entrance and the view througlı the open ground floor verandahs on to the lawns.
The apartments are planned on the open plan principle. with the living and dining rooms occupying the full depth of the building and having a southeast-northwest aspect. All bedrooms have their own bathrooms entered from a hall or small lobby, and are fully equipped. Each flat has a combined kitchen and pantry, a utility room, and self- contained servants' quarters, The building is served by two fully automatic lifts.
The floors and walls of the main entrance hall are finished with travertine and marble. Lighting to the main hall is by "Warm-light" fluorescent lamps behind bronze grilles, The main rooms, halls and lobbies of the flats have teak parquet flooring. The floors of the bathrooms, kitchens and pantries are tiled with coloured mosaic, whilst the walls are lined with coloured Vitrolite glass tiling. The doors throughout are of teak with double masonite panels jointed with casein glue.
To obviate the necessity for 36 aerials strung haphazardly all over the roof and 36 lead-in wires running down the walls to a radio in each apartment, a communal screened aerial system from a single aerial is provided with outlets through concealed conduits to each flat,
Architects: Palmer & Turner.
General Contractors: Lam Woo & Co. Plumbing: Lee Yu Kee
Sanitary Fittings: Shanks Electrical Installation:
Ltd.
British General Electric Co.,
Lifts: The Express Lift Co.
Electric Water Heaters:
Vitrolite: Pilkington
Painting: Hop Shing.
Johnson and Phillips.
Gibbons.
Lock & Door Furniture: Aerial System: Belling Lee. Roofing: Wm. Jacks & Co., Ltd.
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Photographic details of room arrangements.
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