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FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1977

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RECLAMATION FOR CULTURAL CENTRE AT TSIM SHA TSUI

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THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT IS TO BEGIN WORK EARLY NEXT YEAR TO RECLAIM ONE HECTARE OF LAND AT TSIM SHA TSUI WHICH WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE SITE OF THE KOWLOON CULTURAL CENTRE.

AUTHORITY IS NOW BEING SOUGHT FOR RECLAIMING NEW LAND EAST OF KOWLOON PUBLIC PIER, WHICH WILL TIE IN WITH RECLAMATION TO THE EAST, PROVIDING A CONTINUOUS BELT OF RECLAMATION ALONG THE OLD WATERFRONT UP TO THE NEW DEVELOPMENT NOW BEING CONSTRUCTED AT THE SITE OF THE OLD HOLTS WHARF.

NOTICES TO THIS EFFECT ARE PUBLISHED IN TODAY'S GAZETTE, WHICH STIPULATE THAT OBJECTIONS TO THE PROPOSALS MUST BE SUBMITTED IN WRITING TO THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS WITHIN TWO MONTHS FROM TODAY.

THE EXTENT OF THE AREA OF FORESHORE AND SEA BED INVOLVED IS ALSO DESCRIBED IN THE NOTICE (IN BOTH ENGLISH AND CHINESE).

ITS RELATED PLAN CAN BE SEEN ON NOTICE BOARDS POSTED NEAR THE SITE. THE PLAN SHOWING THE AREA OF FORESHORE AND SEA BED INVOLVED MAY ALSO BE SEEN AT THE PORT WORKS DIVISION, 5TH FLOOR, MURRAY BUILDING, GARDEN ROAD, OR THE CROWN LANDS AND SURVEY OFFICE, 19TH FLOOR, MURRAY BUILDING, GARDEN ROAD, OR THE CROWN LANDS AND SURVEY OFFICE, 10TH FLOOR, KOWLOON GOVERNMENT OFFICES, 405 NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON.

WORK ON THE RECLAMATION WILL COMMENCE EARLY NEXT YEAR, AND IT WILL TAKE BETWEEN 12 AND 18 MONTHS TO COMPLETE.

THE TSIM SHA TSUI CULTURAL CENTRE, WHICH IS BEING BUILT BY THE P.W.D. ARCHITECTURAL OFFICE, WILL COVER A 4.37 HECTARES SITE ON KOWLOON PENINSULA.

WORK ON SOME STAGES OF THE CULTURAL CENTRE HAS ALREADY

BEGUN.

THE MAIN BUILDING WORKS FOR THE NEW PLANETARIUM ARE DUE TO

BE COMPLETED TOWARDS THE END OF NEXT YEAR.

CHIEF P.W.D. ARCHITECT, MR. JOSEPH LEI, SAID TODAY THAT FOUNDATION WORKS COSTING NEARLY $2 MILLION HAD ALREADY BEEN COMPLETED ON THE 7,600 SQUARE METRE PLANETARIUM SITE WHICH IS ON PART OF THE FORMER KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY TERMINUS.

THE DOMINANT FEATURE OF THE PLANETARIUM BUILDING WILL BE THE LARGE, EGG-SHAPED DOME STRUCTURE HOUSING THE SKY THEATRE, WHERE AUDIENCES OF BETWEEN 350 AND 400 WOULD MAKE IMAGINERY TRIPS INTO SPACE.