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HONG KONG GOVERNMENT (From page 75)

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male & female chronic wards, Castle U.S.A. Peak Hospital, New Territories. $101.400

Supply & laying of floor & wall til- Dreyer & Co., Ltd. ing (including screeds) for Technical College classroom block extension. Hung Hom, Kowloon. $52,767

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of aluminium La Salle & Co. sliding doors & sidelights for Fire Services Training School, District Fire Headquarters & Ambulance De- pot at Sek Kong. New Territories. $27.970

Electrical Installation

for Ngau Tau The Grandeur Elec- Kok Resettlement Estate (Block 1). trical Co. Kowloon. $119,609

Supply & installation of two passen- The British General ger lifts for abattoir junior staff quar- Electric Co., Ltd. ters. Kennedy Town. Hong Kong. $121.900

Supply & installation of cold store The British General plant, kitchen exhaust & ventilating Electric Co., Ltd. systems at Tong Fuk Open Prison,

Lantau Island. $44,300

Installation of piping for distribution Hong Kong L.P. Cas of liquified petroleum gas and supply Co., Ltd.

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Electrical installation for domestic Yew Sang Hong Ltd. resettlement housing at Sau Mau Ping (Stage II). Block 40, Kowloon. $126.025

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Books

Contemporary Japanese Architecture by Noboru Ka- wayoe 61⁄2 in x 91⁄2 in. 75 pages. Published by the Society for International Cultural Relations Tokyo 1965. 31 photographs.

This volume, the tenth in a series of books on Japanese life and culture, has been written by a distin- guished critic who, by following the various lineages of architectural development in both East and West, has indicated how and where various elements are combined in modern Japanese architecture.

The most interesting chapter is that relating to the influence of Western culture on modern Japanese ar- chitecture.

The first European-style buildings were planned by western architects and the most famous of them is listed as being Josiah Conder, an Englishman, who went to Japan in 1877. Under Conder's teaching, as the first professor of architecture at the Tokyo Technical College (now the Architectural Dept. of the University) the first four students graduated in 1879 and within ten years the design of western-style buildings passed into the hands of the Japanese themselves, as did the teaching.

The chapter goes on to relate the dilemma caused by the various movements and individuals influencing the Japanese architectural scene. Apart from the Modern Movement itself and the introduction of concrete, there were influential Government architects, academicism and the search for a national style of architecture and earth- quake proof design. The chapter is all too short in trying to chart the erratic movements of a developing style.

Even within the last decade Japanese architectural criticism is a strong influencing factor, and well known architects are constantly called upon to defend their works by argument.

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