Structural design for the building was done by Mr. K.T. Philcox, previously structural engineer with Palmer and Turner - another fact which was made public through newspaper correspondence after the announcement of the award.
A first aim of the silver medal scheme was to publicise good architectural design in the society's name. The latest award would seem to have made the public more aware of professional wrangling.
New Shaw Centre of 25 storeys
Iversen, Van Sitteren & Partners are the archi- tects for a multi-million dollar offices and shops complex called Shaw Centre, to be built in the heart of Singapore's luxury hotel and commercial district.
The 25-storey centre will be located at the junc- tion of Orchard Road and Scotts Road. In addition to its 501,066 sq.ft. of commercial floor space, the complex will include 242,268 sq.ft. of multi-storey carparking.
floors. Traffic circulation in the carpark will be one-way with independent interlocking up and down ramps connecting the ground to the fourth floor.
The tenth floor will hold a restaurant and night- club set within roof garden surroundings.
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Each of the final 12 floors of offices will cover 9,119 sq.ft. a total of 229,428 sq.ft. The entire complex, excluding the car park, will be fully air- conditioned.
*Homes for 8,750 at Ho Man Tin
Four domestic blocks with living units for 8,750 will soon go up on an 18-acre site at Ho Man Tin as part of another HK$24 million HK Govern- ment low-cost housing estate. The estate will even- tually provides homes for 26,000 in eight blocks.
The site is east of Princess Margaret Road and is bounded on three sides by Fat Kwong, Sheung Shing and Sheung Lok Streets. There will be two estate schools, with 48 primary classrooms, and three kindergartens.
The ground floor of approximately 20,000 The present building contract, worth HK$7.6 sq.ft. will accommodate vertical circulation points million, is the first of three planned for the estate. by means of escalators and high speed lifts, two It covers four domestic blocks, one estate school large banking chambers and an underground se- and two kindergartens. Work will begin in Feb- curity vault, shops and a large indoor/outdoor cof-ruary and will take 20 months. fee house and milk bar. These facilities, together with the existing Shaw House and Lido Cinema will be linked by an internal pedestrian mall cen- tralising to a public meeting area comprising the coffee house and an open court.
The mezzanine, first, second and third floors will consist of 101,000 sq.ft. of retail shopping
Shaw Centre, Singapore
departmental stores and professional offices. Cen- tral air-wells interlink all floors and spacious areas around the air-wells act as meeting centres for each floor.
Seven floors of parking will rise above the shop- ping levels, with lift services connecting the parking areas to the shops and parking areas to the office
The final phase of the Government's HK$97 million Ngau Tau Kok and Jordan Valley resettle- ment estates has been marked with a start on a new administrative building. It will include a bank and a post office and will serve the 84,000 population of both estates.
Waterfront road well advanced
Construction of the new Waterfront Road, Hong Kong, designed as a high-capacity through traffic route between Central and North Point, is now well advanced. Work on the section between Arsenal Street and Electric Road is in various stages of completion and it will be opened to through traffic in the middle of this year.
For most of its length the road will have three lanes in both directions, but all its benefits will not be realised until the final link with King's Road has been completed.
Tenders for building the Tsing Fung Street fly- over, forming part of the final link, have been in- vited. This structure begins at King's Road, just below Belilios Girls' School, rises as it turns right into Tsing Fung Street, crosses over Electric Road and Hing Fat Street, and descends to join up with the section of the completed road across the north- ern part of Victoria Park.
Bangkok YMCA plans development
Plans for a 60-room addition to the Bangkok YMCA hostel at 27 South Sathorn Road have been approved by the YMCA Board.
The addition will be the 5 million baht first phase of a development plan for the YMCA site. The plan includes a new 11-storey hostel, an in-
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