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Friday, December 7, 1973

SECOND DESIGN HONOUR FOR HONG KONG ARCHITECT

A government architect has been awarded another medal for

hospital design.

He is Mr. Edwin Wong of the Public Works Department's Architectural Office who received a silver for excellence in architecture this (Friday)

evening from the Hong Kong Institute of Architects, The award was made

to Mr. Wong for his design of the Kowloon Hospital West Wing.

It is the second time Mr. Wong has been honoured for hospital design. In 1963, the Royal Institute of British Architects awarded him

and another P.W.D. architect a bronze medal for their design of the Queen

Elizabeth Hospital, one of the largest and most up-to-date in Asia.

Kowloon Hospital West Wing, which provides 586 beds for the

rehabilitation and after-care of patients, was completed in 1970. In his

design, Mr. Wong laid particular stress cn economy of space and he achieved

this remarkably well through a special lay-out of warda each of which

has two sub-units sharing common treatment and service facilities.

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The lay-out reduces walking distance and saves circulation area

This functional simplicity

without affecting the standard of accommodation.

was developed from experience gained from the design of Queen Elizabeth

Hospital, and has been adopted as the standard for the new Princess Margaret

Hospital at Lai Chi Kok which is to open next year.

Describing the new ward concept which has won him the new honour,

Mr. Wong Baid it was designed with basic consideration to Hong Kong's

particular social and economic conditions.

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