clearance of over 12 acres of slum property.”
A more detailed report on the pilot scheme will be published in next month's Far East Architect & Builder.
ASIA'S TALLEST HOTEL
A NEW hotel, the Samyang, to be built in Myong-dong. Seoul, will, it is claimed, be the tallest in Asia. It will be 89 metres high and will have 25 storeys and three basement floors.
Adjoining the hotel will be a 13-storey block of offices and stores, with three basement floors. The site covers 0,8 acre and each 35.5 sq. ft. cost US$1,200.
The taller building will have 616 guest rooms, 170 rental office rooms, and five auditorium-conference rooms
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on the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and nine floors. Each conference room will have a capacity of 800 seats.
Four escalators will connect the first to fourth floors and 16 elevators will connect other floors. One of the basement floors will be a car park for about 70 cars.
The hotel will be constructed and operated by the Samyang Development Co., Seoul. Japanese developers. Hanamagumi Co., are to provide a US$7 million loan for the construction. The loan is repayable over nine years at a 5.75 per cent, interest and represents 55 per cent. of the total construction cost.
Designer of the hotel is Mr. M. Murai, chief architect of the Japanese firm.
INSTITUTE SEEKS MEMBERS
ARCHITECTS in Singapore are urged to become members of the Singapore Institute of Architects in an editorial in the Institute's monthly journal.
The SIA has 87 full members and 15 associate mem-
bers, and they pay an annual subscription of M$20 each. One hundred and forty-nine architects are registered with the Board of Architects, Singapore. 110 of whom are normally resident in Singapore and 69 of these are already members of the SIA.
The editorial says: "A majority of members of this profession are paying subscriptions to the Royal Institute of British Architects (M$54 a year), and to the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (M$36 a year). The benefit which is derived from such external memberships is thought by some people to consist of prestige value in relation to their professional standing on the other hand most members probably cease to think about these mem- berships other than as a means of getting themselves re- gistered with the Boards of Architects in Singapore and Malaysia.
"If Singapore hopes to play its part it must be suffi- ciently strong in its effective membership. To begin with, the SIA must capture the loyalty of virtually all prac-
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tising architects and establish a clear case for diverting all the professional subscriptions which are being paid out of this country into the coffers of this institute.
"It will then be possible to proceed with many of the reforms that will be needed in Government and other sectors that will improve and establish the image and role of the local architect."
POLICE TRAINING DEPOT
CONSTRUCTION of a new depot for the Police Training Con- tingent on the northern side of Clear Water Bay Road at Pak Uk Au in the New Territories of Hong Kong is expected to begin in October this year. Site formation work for the project is nearly complete.
The new depot will consist of 14 buildings ranging from one to four storeys high, spread over an area of about 350,000 sq. ft. at the foot of Hebe Hill (Tsim Fung Shan). It will provide accommodation and training facilities for a police contingent of about 640 officers and
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The depot will include four identical four-storey blocks, each with accommodation for a company of 128 trainees. Another four-storey block will house single ac- commodation for 34 officers, and there will be gymnasium-assembly hall linked to
a two-storey class- room block. A dining hall and canteen will occupy two floors of a three-storey block, with further living quar- ters on the top floor.
The whole project, designed by architects of the Public Works Department, is expected to take about 15 months to finish.
BANGKOK'S BIGGEST HOTEL
THE biggest hotel in Bangkok, with 419 rooms, is to be built by local business interests and managed and operat. ed by Hotel Okura, a Japanese hotel syndicate. Architect is Mr. Yogo Shibata, who designed the Hotel Okura and Hotel New Otani in Tokyo.
The hotel is to be built on a 16 rai site near the junction of Rama IV Road and Silom Soad, opposite the Lumpini boxing stadium. It will be established with a capital of 165 million baht. Forty million baht will be used as initial capital to start the project. Part of the money will be used to compensate present occupants of the site and to pay for the lease of the land from the Crown Property Bureau.
A 30-year lease will be obtained from the bureau. The lease is to be renewable for 15 years at a time. A minimum two renewals will be obtained. Construction of the hotel, which will take four years, will cost 65 mil- lion baht.
Furniture and other equipment will cost 60 million baht. The money will he borrowed from the Export- Import Bank of Japan at an interest rate of six per cent per annum. Repayment will start six months after start of business operation of the hotel.
Besides 419 first-class rooms, the hotel will have a conference room, a banquet room, a restaurant a coffee shop, a tea room, a bar-cocktail lounge, a theatre, a bank. stores, tourist agencies, a post office, airline offices, a Con- swimming pool and parking space for 300 cars. struction is scheduled to start next November.
HOUSING AUTHORITY'S EXAMPLE
MR. I.R. FIRTH, the Housing Commissioner was asked at a recent meeting of the Hong Kong Housing Authority whether the Authority had considered encouraging private developers to follow the example of the Authority in the design and construction of private housing.
The questioner. Mr. Cheung Wing-In, noted that the Authority managed to produce a type of housing most suited to the needs of the community at a much lower cost than private developers.
Mr. Firth said that there had been no direct col- laboration between the Authority and private developers in the design and construction of low cost housing but the
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