ment of architectural education, including the establish- ment of institutions for this purpose. The foundation also aimed to operate a scholarship fund for students intending to study architecture both in Malaysia and abroad.
TAIPEI HOSPITAL CONTRACT
A CONTRACT has been signed between the Mitsui Industry Corporation of Japan and the China Society of Mutual Assistance for Health and Security for the construction of a US$5 million hospital in Taipei. The US Kaiser Foundation is to donate US$60,000 worth of medical equipment and medicines for the project.
An 800-bed hospital is now nearing completion in Taipei. This is the US$7.5 million General Hospital of the Armed Forces which will include large emergency facilities, closed circuit television in the operating rooms and a helicopter port.
BUILDING PLANS APPROVED
THE Building Authority approved in October a total of 14 new building plans of all types in Hong Kong, Kow- loon and the New Territories. In the same period, newly- completed buildings certified for occupation numbered 61 as compared with 69 in the preceding month.
Of these new buildings, eleven were for domestic purposes. 19 for non-domestic purposes, and 31 for com- bined domestic and non-domestic use. In addition, the Building Authority also approved the demolition of ten buildings.
START ON CASTLE PEAK NEW TOWN
WORK on the Castle Peak New Town development scheme in the New Territories of Hong Kong, the first stage of which will provide a balanced community with land for residential, industrial and communal purposes for 100,000 people, is starting this month.
The first contract to be let is for a length of road and associated drainage forming part of stage la. The work includes the formation and surfacing of 2,500 ft. of main road, the formation and surfacing of temporary access roads and the laying of some 6,400 ft. of main storm water drains and sewers. About 225,000 cu. yd.
of material will be excavated and used to reclaim nearby low-lying areas.
To be supervised by the Castle Peak Division of the Civil Engineering Office, PWD, the work will provide road access, main drainage and a route for water mains and other services to parts of two areas now being formed as sites for Government-aided housing. It is expected that this section will be completed within two years. PEOPLE . . .
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Professor W. G. Gregory, Head of the Department of Architecture of the University of Hong Kong, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Architects at the council meeting held on October 4, 1967.
Mr. Andrew Jean, structural engineer, of Summit Court, Hong Kong, has been granted permission by the Hong Kong Building Authority to prepare and sign plans under Regulation 77 (2) of the Building (Construction) Regulations.
A Malaysia branch of the Town Planning Institute has been formed in Kuala Lumpur. Office bearers of its protem committee are: Fong Chek Sam, president: Timothy Lam Thin Fook, vice president: Miss Lee Swan Sim, hon. secretary: Chung Weng Loo, hon. treasurer; Tan Soo Hai: Rosli bin Buyong; and Russel Guilliam.
OBITUARY
MR. Ng Keng Siang, the well-known Singapore architect who was responsible for some of the Republic's most imposing buildings died last month at the age of 60.
Among the projects which he designed are the Asia Insurance Building, the Ngee Ann Building, the Hotel Biltmore, the Nanyang University and the Anglo-Chinese schools in Barker Road and Coleman Street.
A past-president of the Society of Malayan Archi- tects, Mr. Ng started his practice in Singapore in 1938, having studied at the University of London and under- taken postgraduate work at the Columbia University Graduate School. He achieved distinction in design at the London University in 1934, was an Alfred Bossom and Arthur Davis medallist the following year, and later became a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and of the Incorporated Institute of British Decorators.
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acres for industrial purposes; six acres for institutional uses, such as community centres, bus terminus and car parks; and 18 acres for playgrounds. Stage 1 of the project will provide a balanced community for about 100,000 people.
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