Far East
ARCHITECT & BUILDER
The oldest trade journal in the Far East
EDITOR: A. G. BARNETT
MARCH 1967
news review
Contents
News Review..
25
World News
31
Harbour Centre, Hong Kong
35
Guinness Brewery, Kuala Lumpur
40
Bangkok
An Appeal for Planning
44
Bernard J. Cywinski
Johnson's Head Office, Holland.
48
Building for Night Comfort in
Humid Climates
51
J. D. Kendrick
Civil Engineering Section
Northern Cross-island Highway, Taiwan .. 57
Hu Mei-Huang
Materials and Equipment
Contractors' Plant
Building Plans Approved
Contracts Awarded
Land Sales
Books
Index to Advertisers
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63
67
71
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73
75
80
Cover picture: A section of part of the Harbour Centre showing the uses of the lower eight levels of this 18- storey complex which will adjoin the Ocean Terminal, Hong Kong. See page 35.
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CARGO TERMINAL PROPOSED
PROPOSALS for a HK$120 million cargo handling con- tainer terminal in Hong Kong have been put forward to the Colony's Port Committee by a committee set up last year to study the subject.
The Container Committee recommends that considera- tion should be given immediately to reserving 95 acres of unieclaimed seabed at Kwai Chung for the construction of a container terminal and suggests that Government might leave the entire development in the hands of private en- terprise or join with a consortium.
It advocates that steps should be taken to make a first stage of reclamation comprising some 58 acres of seabed available not later than May, 1967, provided no better alternative proposal has been forthcoming by that time. In addition, the committee urges Government to reserve an additional area of some 20 acres for a period of five years in the first instance to meet anticipated de- mands for expansion or associated storage facilities.
The proposed container terminal or depot would have two berths initially, with provision for expansion in stages to three berths and finally four berths, capable of handling ships 750 ft, in length and drawing up to 33 ft. of water.
Total construction and equipment cost of the pro- posed terminal including dredging, seawalls, reclamation, special surfacing, buildings and mechanical equipment, is estimated to be in the order of HK$62 million per berth exclusive of the cost of land.
The Committee holds the view that extension of con- tainer services to Hong Kong will have significant land transport implications requiring extensive road facilities on land together with lighter and transhipment facilities for movement by sea.
BUILDING PLANS APPROVED
ALTOGETHER 37 new building plans of all types in Hong Kong, Kowloon, and the New Territories were approved by the Building Authority during January.
In the same month, 86 completed buildings were cer- tified for occupation as compared with 75 in December last year.
The total included 13 for domestic purposes, 23 for non-domestic and 50 for combined domestic and non-domestic use. In addition, the Building Authority also approved the demolition of 20 buildings.
SINGAPORE USES OWN MATERIALS
ALMOST all the materials used in Singapore Housing and Development Board buildings are now locally manufac- tured, according to a "Malay Mail" report.
About five years ago, more than half the materials used in the Board's projects had to be imported. Now, says the report, the buoyant growth of the local building materials industry has made Singapore self-sufficient in building materials.
However, in the private sector. luxury hotels, "high- cost" houses and sophisticated buildings are still built with some imported materials, like light fittings, decorative ceilings, doors and sanitary ware. In these buildings the
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