Model of US pavilion
fibreglass panels were made in Singapore by Fibreglass Reinforced Products (S) Ltd.
There are three sections to the pavilion, in three colours: blue, orange and yellow. In the blue building will be a display of photographs and drawings showing 170 examples of modern American architecture.
The display in the orange building will be called the "New Face of Asia" and will show national development projects including the Asian Development Bank, the Asian Highway and the Mekong Basin scheme. American pro- ducts will be shown in the "Commercial Section" in the yellow building.
BUILDING PLANS APPROVED
FORTY-ONE plans for new buildings of all types in Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories were approved by the Building Authority in September.
In the same period, completed buildings certified for occupation numbered 104, as compared with 90 in the preceding month. Of the total, ten were buildings for domestic purposes, 34 for non-domestic purposes and 60 for combined domestic and non-domestic use. In addi- tion, the Building Authority also approved the demolition of 24 buildings.
Cost of new building work in the Colony during the month of September was HK$159,065,891. Another $3,710,130 was spent on site formation work. New build- ings of all types erected totalled 99, including seven fac- tories and godowns, four offices and shops, 81 houses and flats, and seven mixed accomodation.
AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE SHOW
TWELVE models of historic and modern Australian build- ings made largely from reinforced aluminium foil will form an unusual diorama in the Australian Pavilion at the Asian International Trade Fair. Bangkok.
The models are of buildings erected from 1798 to the present day. After the fair, the diorama will be dis- played at a building exhibition in Singapore.
Sponsored by the Department of Trade, the diorama was initiated by St. Regis-ACI Pty. Ltd. and built largely from the company's foil insulation, Sisalation 450. It measures 14 ft. by 2 ft. by 10 ft. high and will be lit by fluorescent tubes inside each of the larger models and by lights shining through coloured plastic panels above and below the models.
The buildings represented are (from left): Sydney Opera House; Park Regis Building, Sydney: Southern Cross Hotel, Melbourne; Experiment Farm Cottage, Sydney: AMP Building, Sydney; Australia Square Tower: 1963 Wilkinson Award Home. Sydney: Academy of Science, Canberra: New Wentworth Hotel. Sydney; Tower Mill Motel, Queensland: St. Regis-AC Factory. Mel- bourne: and St. James Church, Sydney.
HK HOUSING PROJECTS
WORK is due to start in December on three large-scale Government housing projects in Hong Kong, two of which will provide accommodation for more than 85,000 people.
The biggest is the new Lei Muk Shu resettlement estate at Kwai Chung where site formation work is now almost complete. This scheme is sited on the hills to the north of the Shek Lei estate, near the industrial town of Tsuen Wan in the New Territories. Over 80,000 will eventually be housed in 17 Mark V type, 16-storey do- mestic blocks. Schools, markets and parking facilities will also be provided in the estate.
Another 16-storey block and a 24-classroom estate school are to be erected at Sau Mau Ping resettlement estate, Kwun Tong, Kowloon. To be completed by mid- 1968, the block will accommodate 5,500 people.
Two 12-storey blocks containing accommodation for 48 police inspectors and their families will be built at Park Road. Hong Kong Island. These should be ready for occupation by April, 1968.
SITES FOR CAR PARKS
HONG KONG Government is considering offering for sale to private developers a number of selected sites in the urban area of Hong Kong and Kowloon as possible loca- tions for the construction of multi-storey car parks.
The Transport Advisory Committee has recommend- ed the following order of priority for the sale of the selected sites for development as private- ly owned and operated multi-storey car parks: the former site of I.C.I., Fortress Hill Road, Lockhart Road and Morrison Hill on Hong Kong Island; and Bute Street/Canton Road, Mongkok Road Fa Yuen Street, the Kwong Wah Hospital site and the San Po Kong site in Kowloon.
Australian architecture diorama on show at Bangkok
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