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SUNDAY, APRIL 16, 1989

PERMANENT HOME FOR REGIONAL COUNCIL AND DEPARTMENT

A PERMANENT HOME FOR THE REGIONAL COUNCIL AND IT'S EXECUTIVE ARM, THE REGIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT, WILL BE COMPLETED IN ABOUT YEARS UNDER A CONTRACT TO BE SIGNED TOMORROW (MONDAY).

TWO

WORTH $133.6

THE CONTRACT FOR THE PROJECT'S SUPERSTRUCTURE, MILLION, IS TO BE AWARDED BY THE ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT.

SITE FORMATION AND PILING WORK ARE DUE то BE COMPLETED UNDER A SEPARATE CONTRACT.

SOON

THE PROJECT SITE. SITUATED ADJACENT TO THE SHA TIN KCRC STATION AND TRANSPORT INTERCHANGE, WAS CHOSEN FOR ITS EASY ACCESSIBILITY BY VARIOUS PUBLIC TRANSPORT MODES FROM OTHER THE TERRITORY. IT IS ALSO WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE FROM THE TOWN CENTRE.

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THE LINK UP OF THE TWO MAIN COMPONENTS A FIVE-STOREY CHAMBERS BUILDING WITH AN 18-STOREY DEPARTMENT HEADQUARTERS RESULT IN EASY INTERNAL COMMUNICATION.

IT WILL ALSO HAVE FAVOURABLE STRUCTURAL AND COST ACCORDING TO THE PROJECT ARCHITECT, MR PETER KEEPING.

PARTS OF SHA TIN

COUNCIL

WILL

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IMPLICATIONS,

THE

"THE VISUAL SEPARATION OF THE TWO ELEMENTS IS MAINTAINED THROUGH BOTH THE DESIGN AND IN THE FINISHES ΤΟ ENSURE THAT COUNCIL CHAMBER IS THE FOCAL POINT OF THE WHOLE DEVELOPMENT, KEEPING ADDED.

MR

EXPLAINING HOW SOME OF THE SITE CONSTRAINTS WERE OVERCOME, HE SAID THE NOISE POLLUTION FROM THE ADJACENT FLYOVER AND THE KCRC STATION WILL BE BLOCKED BY EXTENSIVE PLANTING AND A GARDEN, WHICH

WILL SERVE BOTH AS A NOISE AND VISUAL BUFFER FROM THE TRAFFIC.

HAS ALSO

GUARDED. BY TWO BEN GIVEN TO

ENTRANCE TO THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS WILL BR STATUES OF PEKING LIONS. CONSIDERATION ACCESSIBILITY FOR THE DISABLED.

THE ROUND SHAPED CHAMBER ITSELF WILL BE TOPPED BY A NATURALLY-LIT ATRIUM.

APART FROM SEPARATE OFFICES FOR COUNCIL SECRETARIAT, AND THE USUAL SUPPORT PRESS AND PUBLIC GALLERIES, A LIBRARY AND HOLD RECEPTIONS, EXHIBITIONS, COUNCIL FUNCTIONS.

AUDIO-VISUAL

COUNCIL MEMBERS AND THE FACILITIES, THERE WILL BE CUSTOM DESIGNED AREAS ΤΟ PRESENTATIONS AND OTHER

/INCLUDING SITE