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Far East ARCHITECT & BUILDER

The oldest trade journal in the Far East

EDITOR: A. G. BARNETT

Contents

FEBRUARY 1968

news review

News Review

World News

An Exercise in Industrialised Construction,

J.R. Firth and D. P. H. Liao

Hong Kong .

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27

31

Ministry of Foreign Affairs Building,

Kuala Lumpur.

38

Chinese Rhenish Church, Hong Kong.

45

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People's Park Shopping and

Flats Complex, Singapore

Civil Engineering Section

49

Survey and Setting-out for Stage II

Tunnels, Plover Cove

55

B. P. Bressler

Materials and Equipment.

59

Contractors' Plant

61

Building Plans Approved

Contracts Awarded

Index to Advertisers

65

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Cover picture shows sunbreakers and folded plate roof on the new Ministry of Foreign Affairs Building in Kuala Lumpur, designed by Seow, Lee and Heah. See page 38.

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DESIGN TEAM FOR HK PAVILION

ENJOYMENT and enterprise through harmony' is to be the theme of Hong Kong's pavilion at the World Ex- position which opens in March 1970 at Osaka, Japan.

The Hong Kong Government announced last month that it had appointed a four-man architectural team to design the pavilion. The team comprises: Mr. Alan Fitch of Szeto Wai Associates: Mr. Jackson Wong, of Wong, Ng Ouyang and Associates; Mr. Christopher Haffner, of Spence Robinson; and Mr. Bernard Navetta, senior design executive of the Trade Development Council.

The team will be responsible for preparing designs, landscaping the site, designing the pavilion and the interior features. Covering an area of about 25,000 sq. ft. close to the main west entrance to the exhibition and between the United States and Soviet Union sites, the pavilion will "project the modern image of the com- munity and will emphasise the community as an entity".

Mr. Grahame Blundell, exposition administrator for Hong Kong, said last month that the pavilion would show Hong Kong as a dynamic, thriving industrial and commercial community using the best of modern technology. It would, he said, show life in Hong Kong in the full rather than concentrating on any one aspect and would present Hong Kong as a progressive socially- minded community which at the same time was a unique tourist centre.

Mr. Blundell added that the Hong Kong pavilion would need to be strong enough to last for six months and would probably be a concrete and steel structure. Con- struction work would start in the autumn of this year.

ASIAN CONFERENCE OF CAA

THE first Asian Regional Conference of the Common- wealth Association of Architects (CAA), held recently in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur recommended its member institutes to take immediate action to improve their effi- ciency, their effectiveness and their services to the profes- sion and the public.

The conference, which took place in December, was organised jointly by the Singapore and Malaysian Institutes of Architects. It was attended by delegates from Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Pakistan, India and Ceylon.

In Singapore the conference theme was 'Improvement of Professional Services in Developing Countries', while in Kuala Lumpur the theme was 'Architect and the Peo- ple'. Papers presented included: 'The New Registration Ordinance Proposed for Hong Kong' by Andrew Lee: 'India: Tasks of An Architect' by J. Bhalla; 'The Role of the National Institute in Developing Countries' by Alfred H.K. Wong (Singapore); and 'Registration of Architects in Malaysia' by Hisham Albakri.

The following resolutions were taken by the con- ference:

1. That the regional institutes shall each nominate a representative to form a committee to take immediate action towards the establishment of a regional centre at post-graduate level for the training of architectural teachers

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