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LTHOUGH the Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation's new centre and the Princess Alexandra Red Cross Children's Home are two separate charitable undertakings, it was decided, when the Hong Kong Government made land available to them on adjoining sites on the hill- side overlooking the new town of Kwun Tong, to have the two build- ings designed by one architect and to have both built in the same style.
This has achieved harmony of design, always necessary but par ticularly so when a completely new district is being developed, and has also led to a decrease in the cost of construction as the two buildings were treated as one contract.
Within the limits of the budget-- and costs are always a vital matter in buildings of this sort the architects the Harriman Realty Co. Ltd. (C. Haffner, architect in charge), have brought into being on K.T.İ.L. 264 and 265, Kwung Tong, a cheap and functional set of build- ings, using the plainest and simplest
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