TOWER COURT
NEW APARTMENT
BLOCK AT
LEE GARDENS
Architect: Mr. Eric Cumine
Lee Hysan Estates have prepared plans for a new block of flats to be built in the Lee Gardens area in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong. The building will be named Tower Court and will be 15 storeys high with a total height of 173 feet and when completed, it is expected to be the highest residential building in Hong Kong.
Tower Court will occupy а site bounded on three sides by public roads Sunning Road on the west, Hysan Avenue on the north and Peiping Road on the east-just across the road from Sunning Court and close to Embassy Court, which were both developed by the same Com- pany. The building will occupy an area of about 9,000 square feet with a volume of 800,000 cubic feet.
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An innovation in modern domestic housing will be introduced in new project by the incorporation in the same building of a wide range of self-contained flats from single rcoms to duplex apartments. A total of 33 units will be provided.
(Above) Photograph of a model of the new apartment block
showing the front elevation.
(Delone_left) Another view of the model showing the back of the building,
The lower three floors will be re- tion, are difficult to insulate from served for offices or enterprises of a noise without heavy expenditure for non-domestic nature. The next eight the installation of sound-proofing floors Will contain one-and-a-half materials. In an endeavour to sur- roomed studio apartments, and two- mount this difficulty economically, roomed, three-roomed and four- the architect has incorporated into roomed duplex flats. The 11th and 12th floors will each contain a six- roomed apartment and at the top of the building will be a nine-roomed duplex penthouse.
All of the living and bed rooms will have balconies, and all bedrooms will have adjoining bathrooms. One service and two passenger lifts will provide access to the apartments.
Many flats in Hongkong, because of their reinforced concrete construc-
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the design a novel expedient-in the duplex flats, the living rooms will be individual above the bedrooms in apartments; this should do much to ensure quiet.
The new building is expected to be in about mid-1955 at an finished estimated cost of $2.000.000.
The architect is Mr. Eric Cumine. F.R.I.B.A., and the contractors are Messrs. Lam Woo and Hung Yick.