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Far East

ARCHITECT & BUILDER

The oldest trade journal in the Far East

EDITOR: A. G. BARNETT

JANUARY 1965

news review

Contents

News Review

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World News

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Fourteen - storey Helicoidal Staircase

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Island Hospital near Macau

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Hang Chong Building, H. K.

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Radial Flats, Singapore

Planning in Hong Kong

Opinion, by Prof. W. G. Gregory About People

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Malaysian Airways Headquarters..

Civil Engineering Section

Ocean Terminal, H. K.

Muda River Project, Malaya

New Materials and Equipment

New Contractors' Plant

News in Brief

Building Plans Approved

Contracts Awarded

Land Sales

Index to Advertisers

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Cover picture: Hong Chong Building-latest addition to < the skyline of Central Victoria, Hong Kong. T. C. Yuen and Co., architects. See Page 49

Published monthly by Far East Trade Press Ltd., 113-114 Alexandra House, Hong Kong. Tel: 241031 European Office: Building and Contract Journals Ltd., 32 Southwark Bridge Road, London, 8. E. 1. Tel: Waterloo 2060. Printed by Shum Shing Print- ing Co., 7 Ship Street, Hong Kong. Tel: 724513.

Far East Architect & Builder January 1965

ANCIENT AND MODERN

WITH this issue Far East Architect and Builder becomes at once both the oldest and the newest trade journal published in the Far East.

As the Hong Kong & Far East Builder it was the pioneer in 1935. Now, thirty years later, it continues in the van. Under its new title it will appear monthly and will be distributed free to all architects, consultants and executives in the building industry in South East Asia.

Existing readers will note that the best features of the old journal are retained in the new. Several pages are devoted to descriptions of new buildings, and W.G. Gregory, Professor of Architecture, University of Hong Kong, continues his opinion column.

But in the new look monthly several features are introduced. News Review presents a round-up of Asian building news, while items picked out from the world building scene are given on the World News Page.

The dividing line between building and civil gineering is a flexible one, and for this reason a special section is included to deal with Civil Engineering and Public Works construction projects.

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Further additions, of particular interest to con- tractors, are the sections on New Materials and Equip- ment and New Contractors' Plant. These will keep readers abreast of the latest in modern building methods.

The complete Far East Architect and Builder will, it is hoped, make a worthwhile contribution to the knowledge and efficiency of the building industry in the Orient.

REGISTRATION WANTED

INTRODUCTION of an "Architects Registration Ordinance" was urgently needed if the Hong Kong Society of Architects was to achieve its goals.

Retiring President of the Society (Mr. Edward W.K. Lee) said this at the annual dinner.

Mr. Lee said that without this Ordinance the con- fusion of the public toward the term "Authorised Architect" and the members of the HKSA could never be clarified.

"And the heavy task of the Architects Discipline Beard and the Building Authority can never be eased" he said.

He added that this also made it difficult for the Society to enforce the code of practice and the ethics in the profession.

COMMONWEALTH ARCHITECTS' VENUE

MALTA has been adopted by the newly formed Common- wealth Association of Architects as the venue for their 1965 conference. The meetings will be held on June 25 to 27.

Arrangements for the conference are being made by the association's secretary, Mr. T. C. Colchester, who is now installed in a permanent office at the RIBA Head- quarters, 66 Portland Place, London W.1. Mr. Colchester was officially appointed secretary when the association's

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