1934-04-02 — Page 13

MONDAY, APRIL

1934.

Engineering and Bûllding

SHANGHAI

BUILDING

PROGRESS

Growing Popularity Of Western Area.

DEMAND FOR APARTMENTS

Shanghai.

The large number of permita Issued this month especially in the Western part of the French Concession proves the growing po- pularity' of this section as a resi dential area, according to the real, estate review of the Realty Invest- merit Company. Apartments con- tinue to dominate the permits, the value of the land is a determin-| ing factor, and the demand for apartments is steady as there are few vacancies and the rents Arin,

Are

New buildings listed included:

Western District,

On Route Magnihy, midway be tween Roule Winling and Route

Prosper Paris, an apartment on a comparatively smil

piece of

ground and going up 10 -storice

with 18 garages.

On Route Di Four, near the another of Rue D'Arco,

corner

apartment house.

On Rue Bourgeat, between Route Cardinal Mercier and Route Dea Soeurs, two medium-sized apartment houses are to be built. one to be started Immediately.

On Route Dupleix, near corner of Route Mugy, 42 Chinese hongs.

On Route

Pere

the

Froe and Route Magy, 3

foreign houses

Moresca, between

with two stories |

and G garagen..

Eastern District.

with a Boller house áttached:

Yalu, Road, 19 Chinese hongs,

+

HE CHINA MA

Where Avalanche Buried Italian Village

Looking for dead and injured, soldiers and volunteer workers scour the Bow-covered ruins of what once were homes in the Italian village of Bolognola. A mountain avalanche wiped out aseellon of the town,

THE LOCOMOTIVE

INDUSTRY

Bad Year Experienced

In Britain.

killing 22 people and injuring many more of the reridiants of the town. The village is situated at the foot of the Apennine Mountains which are fainous for their beauty,

THE KUT BARRAGE | OFFICE BUILDINGS

SCHEME.

IN AMERICA

Construction Planned In Iraq.

-HOU

27 Per Cent. Awaiting Occupants

JANUARY RENTAL SURVEY

BONDERISING IRON IN AUSTRALIA.-

Plant Installed At Glebe.

New Bank In Shanghai

Old Building Being Re-Modelled.

COMPLETION BY JULY

Shanghai.

Owners of the National Com mercial Bank on Peking Road are

watching with anxious eyes the

the old section will be used for the offices of the real estate de partment, now situated on Sze chuen Road, and the trust" and, rald exchange department The aanex will handle domestic ex- change, loans, sarings and current accounts.

The exterior of the bank will be

construction work now in full done in beautiful pre-cast Imita

tion granite. All the metalwork wing on the new annex to their

building as well as the work of will be of wrought iron, remodelling the old building on The Allied Architects, designers the corner of Feking and Kiangai of the new project, have been do- Roads. Work was begun in Janing considerable work in China uary and the contractors are now recently. They drew up the plans pushing ahead as fast as possible for the Ministry of Foreign Af to have the beautiful now, struc-fairs and Executive Yual build- ture completed by the middle of inga in Nanking, the Metropol next July.

Theatre. Shanghai, and the Shapy-

·

When finished the' annex and bai Mercantile Bank the remodelled old building will The consulting engineers aro be incorporated into one and the Hwa Chi while the general con- same building. The accompany-tractors are Sun Tai Construction ing drawing shows how the new Company, . banking house will appear when complete.

who

new

The Allied Architects; drew up the plan for the building and rebuilding project. have finished a design that will combine both utility and beauty of lines in modern banking struc- tures. The architects have also arranged their construction plan so an to allow seven more fect ón Kiangai Road, in keeping with the Council plan to widen the streets whenever new buildings are being erected.

Will Have "Offices-to-Let" The new building--annex and remodelled section when

com-

INDUSTRY IN LANCASHIRE.

Extensive Contracts

In Hand.

Motor-vehicle manufacturers in

this area are finding conditions in early 1934 quite satisfactory, and several useful orders have already been secured. · One of the most Important is that for 22 motor am*. nibuses. to cost approximately £50,000, for the Durban Corpora

plete will have a frontage on Pek-ion, which it is announced Meaars, |Leyland Motors, Limited, are shars ing Road of 200 feet and on Kissing, through Messrs. Leyland Mo-

With, four

some

The Australian Gas Light Com-af Road of 110 feet. Tenders are now being invited On Tongshan, near Liaoyang At the end of 1982 it was anti by the Iraq Ministry of Economics

pany has installed a plant for stories rising to a height of 60ors (S. A.), Limited, with a Wol- Sonderising metal for the preven feet, there will be ample room for verhampton firm, Road, a factory, building.

cipated that 1983 would prove to and Communications for the con- The January report of the Com-ion of rust in the works. At Me: offices which will be let to other The outlook continues encourag- On Halung, *near Linching be another year of small exporta struction of a barrage, hèad regu-

Arms. The two top floors havejing in the electrical-plant manu- Rond, another factory building and acute depression for the leco-lator and 3,000 m. of drainage ca- mlitee on Renting of the National Ennally and Gordon, Glebe.

where most motive industry. This predictionnal at Kut, 342 km. balow Bagh- Association of Building Owners

The object of the installation is been designed as the "offices-to-facturing section, and Managers in the America re- Of Wuchow Road, near East has, unfortunately, proved only dad.

books. Moreover, locomo- Yalu Road. 19 Chinese hongs. too accurate.

The barrage, which is to be verls, according to "Skyscraper to treat metal so that if it is to be let portion of the building. The firms have moderately well-filled

Lacquered or painted that its sur-first floor will be occupied by the order. Off Wuchow Road near East. The advantages of the deprecia-built across the River Tigris, will Management," the official publica face will be changed to an absor-bank office staffs while the ground tive builders are now more advan tion of the association, that the tion of sterling might have been be 500 m. long and will be

trend toward additional vacancies bent non-metallic coating which floor will house the vaults, coun- tageously placed than for On East Yuhang Road, near Wu-expected to exercise an important structed in mass concrete with a

At Wairintgon, wire mills and chow Rond, 7 Chinese shops. Influence on British locomative ex-faciug of moulded blocks or the during the last several years has being part of the metal itself, entries and other desks necessary time past.

been halted. The survey, made uree the permanent cohesion of fort the immediate needs of meet-

ing the banking public.

structural-engineering Arms are On Choufoong, at the corner of ports. But these have been sub-same material. It will have 50

While the annex and remodelled fairly well employed, Mesara, East Yuhang Road, a group of 7 stantially offset by the world-wide openings, each about 6 m. wide, in 35 of the principal cities of the paint, enamel, or lacquer.

· Should the coating become scrat Chinese kongs and 4 Chinese difficulties of railway companies, which will be controlled by sluice United States and Canada, cevers

which have rendered susential the gates.

1,900 office buildings with a total ched or damaged there is no đan old building will be one, the main Pearson and Knowles Engineering shops.

And Widenings, continuation of 'stringent econo At one side of the barrage there rentable.floor area of,,175,669,040 ger of the treated metal under-business of banking will be con Co., Ltd, having several extensiva, Road Extensions

ducted in the new addition while contracts in hand-Engineering, Scheduled extension of Liang-my,

will be a navigation lock 16.5 m. square feet. Of this amount 48,,neath rusting. Once more shan Road and the widening of

replacement has wide and with a usable length of 447,161 aquare feet, or 27.57 per are vacant, EN contrasted Fingliang Road, land surrendered been deferred, though signs of an 80 m. There will also be a fish cent

increasing demand for consideration.

for essential ladder. A load 4 m wide, with with. 26.91 per cent in October.

In addition to the present va Scheduled widening of Lay maintenance have at last appear two footways, will be constructed

cancy, the completion of three Zoad, near Yangtzepoo Road, ed.

on top of the barrage, while land surrendered for considera-] The home market for indepen-short distance up stream will be a new buildings will add only. 718- 1dent manufacturers has been virhead regular through which water 000 square feet of office space to

tually non-existent. The railway will be diverted into an irrigation the market.

"The January rental survey," companies which, in 1932, turned canal 3 lon. long, and thence into

locomotives, the Hai river, which flows between states George W. Klein. Indiana- produced slightly fewer in 1933, Kut und Nasiriyah on the Euph-polie, chairman of the committes and practically no outalde orders rates and is at present dry at cer- on renting, indicates that con- REALTY REPORT ISSUED

on their behalf were executed durtain seasons. Jing the year. In order to meet de

a reduction Plans have been submitted and clining revenues approved for a fine new depart-£7.700,000 in expenditure was ac ment store in the very important hieved during 1992, and, a further location bounded by Nanking, Ti-reduction of £3,200,000 in the drai bet and Lloyd Roads, according to half of 1933, by the four groups a report of the Shanghai real es- The requirements of the Southern tate market issued by the Realty Railway for steam locomotives Investment Company:

tion.

New. Department Store Planned.

out some 220 new

have also been permanently

of

re.

The main portion of the bufid-duced by turning over to electrio ing will be a pleasing blending traction.

Nevertheless, the year 1933, 'If]

LOW COST HOUSES NEEDED IN U.S.

traction of space has apparently stopped. Part of the increase in vacancy is accounted for by four new buildings being added to the These survey data in one city. buildings had not previously sub-1 mitted their figures for rental, sur- Veye. As a matter of fact, a num-

U.S.$12,000,000 Required ver of cities show that vacancy

For Dwellings.

has decreased."

COWES HARBOUR'S

IMPROVEMENT..

New York. of the uulity-of modern construc-

Substantial modern houses, priced tion with the Chinese motif run-bad in resulte, marked a profound at $3,000, can be sold to 10,000,000 ning through the whale design. change in prospects. For the fire American families with annual in- The Nanking and Tibet Road time in many years, both passen comes between $1.200 and $2.000 corner of the building will be car-ger and goods traffics showed con in the next few yea:H, Bror G ried well above the main portiontinuous increase throughout, the and will be strictly Chinese in de year. By the end of 1938 the de- Dahlberg, of the Celotex Company, told members of the Illinois Lam- sign and should be a fine addition cision had been taken to put in ber and Material Dealera. Associa- to the ever-growing skyline around, hand the enormous arrears of re- tion recently, the recreation grounds.

The serious allting up of Cowes placements .accumulated during At least $12,000,000, be declar- Another important improvement the depression,

largely it to The programme ed, are needed to provide homes Harbour, due

Necessity For Scheme To Prevent Silting.

In the Central District is the for 1984. as announced so far, in for those families with incomes thought to a change in the forma block on Honan Road, between for some 500 locomotives, of which under $1,200 a year, Thess per- tion of the Shrape Bank, is en- Avenue Edward VII and Canton a small propertion is to be turned Road. The new Pootung Bank out outside the railway companies ons, he charged, live in homes raging the attention of the Har that are positively unit for ho-bour Commisslopers. The north With additional demand Building is just about completed, works.

man habitation-homes without western toe of the bank has in the and the adjoining new shops are anticipated from industrial use, bathtubs, indoor toilets, running isst 80 years receded about 100 being occupied. Now the rest of the outlook in the home market is water, adequates sunlight and we yards and retarded its effect as a the block to Canton Road is go-thus brighter then for many years.tilation. Addin

Ing to be rebuilt, for the bamboo--Engineering,

fence is just being erected prior

to tearing down the old shops. The new shops will be set back). allowing for road widening, Any- thing like this will be a further

Electricity Output

In Britain.

rellef for a busy, street, and it is During 1983, the total amount hoped that the next block north of of electricity generated In Great Honan Boad will soon yield to 'ne-Britain by authorised undertakers cessary widening,ETO way 18,554 million hoib'as come

ENGINE BUILDING AT CREWE.

natural breakwater, and # LAUN channel is forming between the sast and west edges of the Shrape, [seriously · interfering with the

deepwater channel.

40 Freight Locomotives Wolfe Barry and Partners for the

Under Construction.

Forty new superheater los

Another Project Started pared with 12241 million unit in Lives for working heay Another large building project 1985. The 1983 total shows an inexpress freight trains. ars has been started in the residential crease of 1,313 million unitat or contro

district, on Avenue Duball over 10.7. per cent Engineering.

Josking French Park, North of t

Bus Lafayette the plans call for the Extension of Weingu Borg, 27

an apartment building of moder- Chinesä: shops are under way, and plad

ata niza and thirty-one semi-on Ford Lane, between Pingilang

foreign, houses,

Why Road and Yangtasepoo - Hond, 19

In the Eastern plstrict, at the Chinese-housas - Când Ave Chi corper of Yangtaxapoo Road and shops have been started.

A scheme prepared by, Bir John

constuction of a training. [the past side and further dredging

of the main channel on the mide in inop

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