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1. Adoption and preparation of a general master plan of the entire archipelago.

2. The preparation, adoption and enforcement of up-to-date subdivision regulations.

3. Comprehensive regional-urban planning. 4. A planning authority with power to execute. investigate and check planning projects and regulations.

5. Adequate funds appropriated by government plus contributions from private sectors by way of donations and fees.

minutes: air-conditioning and lighting are designed to be fully adjustable to internal room arrangement.

The flexibility of the centre also finds expression in the fact that there are no columns whatever, each floor is supported on cantilevers projecting out from two large centrally-located trunks that contain toilets and other services at each level.

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MR. The preparation and adoption of a national building code.

TEN-STOREY BLOCK WITHOUT COLUMNS

A TEN-storey social service centre is to be erected at 33 Granville Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong, with funds It will allocated by the Federal Republic of Germany. house the operations of the Lutheran World Service.

Demolition of the Service's existing head office on the site will start in April. Construction of the superstruc- ture is expected to begin in August and the building is due for completion by May 1967.

The centre will accommodate the following facilities: Medical and dental centre: sections for assistance to primary, secondary and university students: crafts centre:

Model of Lutheran social service centre

sections for self-help and rehabilitation; rural rehousing section; and material relief and child feeding section. In addition there will be administrative offices, a secretariat, a conference room, a library and a central filing section. The Hong Kong offices of the World Council of Churches. Department of Service to Refugees, will also be housed on one floor of the building, and there will be car parking space on part of the ground floor.

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Architects are Spence, Robinson, Thornburrow, with Peter Pun Associates as their struc- tural consultants, P.C. Russell and Partners as quantity surveyors, and Thomas Anderson and Partners as me- chanical consultants.

To cater for the ever changing departmental organisa- tion of the Lutheran Service the centre is designed to allow for frequent changes in accommodation. Internal and external walls can be changed at will with minimum effort. Some features of the design are: plain office partitions can be replaced with partitions designed as storage units of various types; ceilings can be changed from plain plaster panels to specially-sprayed acoustic panels in a matter of

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PWD ARCHITECT RETIRES

WONG Ting-tsai. Chief Architect, Hong Kong Public Works Department. has retired after 13 years' service with the department.

He was presented with a farewell gift from his col- leagues at ceremony last month. Mr. Michael Wright, Director of Public Works, made the presentation. He said: "There are many buildings which bear the stamp of quality both in design and detail which has always been the hallmark of Mr. Wong's work. He has won prizes in several photography competitions and his re- putation as an architectural photographer spreads far beyond Hong Kong."

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Mr. Wong is 45. He is emigrating to Canada with his family.

CONTRACTORS ELECT OFFICIALS

MR. Quintin K. Calderon, head of a Manila construc- tion firm bearing his name, has been elected president of the Philippine Contractors Association.

Other officers elected recently were: Mayor Emiliano Caruncho Jr., vice president: Col. Antonio P. Chanco, vice president: Ramon Hechanova, secretary; and Eligio de Guzman, treasurer. Members of the board are: Vicente Esquerra. Alfonso Casimiro, Federico A. Santander, Eduardo Santiago. Ed. M. Sison, Lucio Lee Rodriguez, Benjamin Ynson, Max Stuessi and Roberto Montinola.

WOOD WOOL FACTORY

A FACTORY manufacturing wood wool slabs has started operations at Petaling Jaya, near Kuala Lumpur. The slabs, which are particularly suitable for use on multi- storey buildings because of their light weight, are made from timber fibre, chemicals and cement.

The makers. Wood Wool Slab Manufacturing Co., Ltd., claim that they are also fire-proof, sound-proof, heat-resisting and non-absorbant. Some 400 slabs a day are being produced at present but this is expected to be increased to 1,000 a day in the near future.

BIDS FOR MACAU HOUSES

TENDERS are being invited for the construction of 270 houses for under-privileged persons in Macau. Two hundred houses will be built at Taipa Island at a cost of nearly HK$1,100,000.

The other 70, costing about HK$430,000, will be in Macau. The United Nations High Commission for Re- fugees has donated US$150,000 towards the houses on Taipa Island.

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Artist's impression of the proposed Valgosons Building at Pasong Tamo, Makati, Philippines. Designed by architects Valencia, Kayanan, Salvador and Villarta, the building will be constructed by R. M. Lejano Construction.

Far East Architect & Builder March, 1966

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