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Far East ARCHITECT & BUILDER

The oldest trade journal in the Far East EDITOR: A. G. BARNETT

Contents

JULY 1967

news review

News Review

World News

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Physic Extension (phase II) and Lecture Theatre No. 1, University of Singapore 37 Lantao Open Prison, Hong Kong

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New Liverpool Cathedral, UK Philippine Interior Design

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Network Analysis in Construction (part II) 54

P. A. Smith, AIOB

Commonwealth Association of Architects 58

Prof. W.G. Gregory, B Arch, ARIBA

Civil Engineering Section

Waterproofing the Substructure of MSA

Headquarters, Singapore

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Y. S. Lau, H.S. Ho, and G. M. Wheat

Slipformed Lift Cores for Tower Block,

MSA Headquarters

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Materials and Equipment

69

Contractors' Plant

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Building Plans Approved

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Contracts Awarded

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Index to Advertisers

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Cover picture: Two hundred employees of The Hongkong Electric Co. Ltd. and their families are housed in this HK$2.8 million block at North Point. Architects, Leigh and Orange, have also designed a second 25-storey apartment block for the company, which is now under construction on an adjacent site. See "HK$4m. Staff Housing Project", page 28.

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PLANNING ADVISERS APPOINTED

AN Australian firm has won a S$3,400,000 contract from the United Nations to act as advisers in the development of Singapore. The firm, Crooks, Mitchell Peacock and Stewart, of Sydney, will be consultants in the preparation of a S$15,640,000 master plan for industrial and town planning, including transport services.

The UN will provide $$4,760,000 towards the pre- paration of the plan, while the cost to the Singapore Government will be S$10,880.000, most of which will be spent on local services.

A Singapore Government spokesman said last month that the Government had sought the advice of the UN over the last four to five years. In 1962, a Norwegian architect-planner, Mr. Erik E. Lorrange, who was invited to make a six-month study in Singapore, recommended an urban renewal programme, stressing that Singapore was ripe for such development.

A year later, a three-man UN team, which reviewed the situation, accepted substantially the Government's major housing programmes in Toa Payoh, Kallang Basin and the new town of Jurong. Their report emphasised the necessity for a general conceptual plan to be evolved to co-ordinate the housing renewal and new towns with a vital link-up through transportation. Detailed studies of transportation planning. leading to an island-wide transportation system, were recommended.

The report generally accepted Lorrange's recom- mendation on the urgent need of urban renewal for Singapore and the sub-division of the central areas into 17 precincts.

DRAFT PLAN FOR SHAU KEI WAN

A DRAFT outline plan for the future development of Hong Kong's eastern district of Shau Kei Wan, has been pub- lished by the Town Planning Board. The plan covers a total area of about 330 acres, with a present population of 100,000 persons, estimated to increase to 150.000 by 1975.

The draft aims to ensure that as development pro- ceeds and the population increases, adequate provision for services and community facilities can be provided and that the reclaimed land is put to its best use.

The plan will provide the basis for the systematic replacement of squatter areas by permanent development.

Provision is made for the use of Aldrich Bay as a major typhoon shelter. Other features include the zoning of 87 acres for residential use including Government and Government aided housing; expansion of the existing re- sidential areas southwards onto the hill slopes with access roads at a higher level; the setting aside of 14 per cent of the developable area for playgrounds, rest gardens, amenity and planting areas.

Even with improvements, Shau Kei Wan Road will not be adequate for local and through traffic and a new major east-west road has been provided on the reclama- tion, with possible extension later to Chai Wan. The plan aims at better grouping and an extension of industrial areas and better provisioning of schools, open spaces and other

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