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news review

Tallest building Asia

Plans for building the tallest building in Asia have been announced by the semi-government Bangkok Inter-Continental Hotel Co.

flyover. It also allows for a road along the west- ern boundary of Victoria Park to connect the coastal road to the Causeway Road and Yee Woo Road junction. When the area is fully developed, the Board envisages it will be populated by about 100,000.

A director of the company, Lt. Gen. Chalerm- chai Charuvaetr, said last month that the company had a five to seven year project to erect the build- ing which would be 40 to 50 storeys high. The building would include offices, apartments and res- taurants and there would be a large shopping ar- cade nearby. The total cost is estimated at about US$25 million.

American architects, Louis Berger Inc. have been appointed to prepare the plans.

Zoning plans for Central and Causeway Bay

HDB to spend S$24 m on land

Some S$24 million is allowed in the Singapore Housing and Development Board's budget for next year for urban renewal land acquisition, mostly in the northern and southern precincts of the city.

A new outline zoning plan for Central District produced by Hong Kong's Town Planning Board marks out four large areas for private development, three for commercial use and one for commercial and residential use. Two are located east and west of Cotton Tree Drive, and two on the reclamation to the west of the Star Ferry concourse.

Maintenance and repairs of buildings are es- timated to cost S$5,693,800, while $$3,764,000 has been earmarked for the management of hou- sing estates and land.

One tenth of the area is reserved for public open spaces and an area of nine acres between Har- court Road and Queensway east of Cotton Tree Drive is subject to detailed planning to include Government, institution, community and utility uses and multi-storey car parks.

The Board also expects to spend $$29,366,500 on the East Coast reclamation project and S$2,867,600 on the Kallang reclamation scheme. The setting up of flatted factories for the Ju- rong Town Corporation is expected to cost S$3,657,000, while the Jurong New Town housing scheme will involve some S$3,135,000.

MACAU FERRY WHARF

Open space between the Star Ferry and Vehicle Ferry piers will incorporate a wide pedestrian way to link the two concourses and pro- vide access to a future bus terminus.

The Board has also com- pleted an outline zoning plan for the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong. Covering an area of 351 acres, it envisages little change in the built-up areas or private and public open space.

It provides for a new coastal road along the north- boundary of Victoria

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Park to connect Gloucester Road with King's Road by

HK Government will house 2m by 1975

One in seven of Hong Kong's population will have low rent homes in self-contained flats in hou- sing estates throughout the colony by 1974.

More than 330,000 are already living in ten Government low cost housing and eight Housing Authority estates, and HK$300 million worth of homes for another 280,000 are being built. These do not include the 13 estates housing 107,000 built by the Hong Kong Housing Society, and the two Society estates for another 40,000 under construction.

Government low cost housing blocks now going up consist of eight multi-storey buildings at Wong Chuk Hang for 31,700, eight at Ko Chiu Road for 21,100, five at Kwai Hing for 18,000, nine at Kwai Shing for 38,000, eight at Kwai Fong for 29,600, and eight at Kei Muk Shue for 35,200. In addition,

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way of the Tsing Fung Street Outline zoning plan for Central District

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Far East BUILDER, February 1970

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