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A steeply sloping site in the central area has been adapted to provide three levels of shops beneath a theatre in Hong Kong's

RESTAURANT, night club, shops, a large public cinema and 16 floors of offices are all housed in a 19-storey block scheduled for com- pletion in April at Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong.

Suitably named the New Enter- tainment Building, the block re- places the old King's Thea- tre and is moreover de- signed by the con of the architect for

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King's Theatre auditorium viewed from the stage

the original building, Mr. lu Po Chiu of Ui and Company.

The firm's offices are opposite the site and from his window Mr. Ui has been able to watch the demolition of his father's work and the germination of his own.

The old building was a seven- storey structure with offices fronting Queen's Road Central and the thea- tre at the rear. The new building follows the same pattern, but on a grander scale. This layout is in fact the obvious one because of two conditions. First the site, bounded on the east and west by Wyndham Street and D'Aguilar Street, slopes very steeply down to Queen's Road. Secondly the building owner requir- ed shopping space on the valuable Queen's Road C. frontage.

Full benefit of the steep gradient has been taken in the design of the new building in which the cinema auditorium has been raised to third floor level with its main foyer on Wyndham Street. This arrangement,

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