Cover: The Manila Hilton. Its 420 guest rooms are in a 17-storey tower which rises from a five-storey screened podium holding all the public and function rooms. Architect: C. D. Arguelles.
Builder
Far East
Contents
A. G. Barnett, editor
SEPTEMBER 1968
News Review
First HK local officer as commissioner for
housing
11
Mongkok bank building will be column-free 11
Plan for further Singapore satellite town
11
Biggest housing estate to be built in Kwai
Chung, HK
13
New Hotels in S.E. Asia
PUBLISHER AND GENERAL MANAGER
R. V. Pandit
Founded 1935 and published monthly by
Far East Trade Press Ltd.,
1908 Prince's Building, Hong Kong,
Telephone: 241031
Cables: FETRAP
Printed by Shum Shing Printing Co., Hong Kong
INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES MALAYSIA/SINGAPORE
Asia Magazines Ltd., 2nd Fl., International Bdg, Orchard Road, Singapore 9
JAPAN
International Business Press Ass., Seika Bdg, 7-16, 4-chome, Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo UNITED KINGDOM
Iliffe-NTP Overseas Ltd., 161/166 Fleet Street, London EC4 UNITED STATES
The Sheraton Hotel, Manila
Hotel projects on the drawing board
155
19
27
31
35
:
The Hotel Malaysia, Singapore
Hotel interiors (in colour)
Structural design of Hotel Malaysia
Donald K. Gudgeon
The Manila Hilton
39
The President Hotel, Bangkok
47
Cahners Publishing Co. Inc., 5 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, III. 60603
AUSTRALIA
Mr. C. Ryman, The Australian, GPO Box 4342, Sydney, NSW FRANCE
Compagnie Francaise d'Editions, 40 Rue du Colisee, Paris 8
SWEDEN
Inter-Avis AB, Box 3322, 103 66 Stockholm 3
ITALY
Etas Kompass, Via Mantegna 6, Milan GERMANY
Kontinenta Anzeigen-Verwaltung, Grafenberger Allee 271, 4 Dusseldorf
SWITZERLAND
Agentur Iff, Webergasse 43, 8201 Schaffhausen
Controlled circulation to 8,000 qualified readers
Far East BUILDER, September 1968.
New Products
Materials and equipment
New Projects
Building plans approved
Index to advertisers
:
53
57
58
7