February_1965 — Page 10

From housing estate to skyscraper

CUT BUILDING COSTS

WITH

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* Cranes in stock, erection and service facilities locally available.

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Recent view of framework construction for Qantas Hotel shops and stores. The main dining room follows the horseshoe shape, two floors up.

From the ground floor lifts and escalators lead to a two-storey high convention hall with seating for more than 1,200 delegates.

Excavations for the hotel began in July, 1963. Con- struction started in April, 1964, and will be finished by July next year.

Another Tower for

Viewing Thames

TO BE on the map in England nowadays a town must have a tower. This must be a very tall pencil-like struc- ture with a glass blob on the top for distant viewing.

Southend's proposed tower

one

London has one (see last issue), Brighton is to have on its sea front, and now plans have been put before Southend (Essex) Corporation for one over- looking the Thames Estuary.

Taller than Brighton's, but not so tall as London's, Southend's 472 ft. high structure is proposed for a site close to the town's famous mile-long pier. It will have four glass-walled observation decks up to 65 ft. in diameter, with the lowest at a height of 325 ft.

At the base of the tower will be a large restaurant and bar overlooking the sea and on the remainder of the site will be a shopping centre on two levels, motel, snackbars and a promenade leading to the pier.

leoh Ming Pei Chosen CHINA-BORN architect, Ieoh Ming Pei, now resident in New York, has been chosen to design the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library. It will be sited

on the Boston bank of the Charles River, near the Harvard Business School. A US$10 million fund for the building has already been exceeded.

Far East Architect & Builder February, 1965

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