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SINGAPORE

18-STOREY

LUXURY FLATS

ANG KHENG LENG & ASSOCIATES architects and engineers

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Y-SHAPED plan has been chosen for a towering block of luxury apartments to be erected on an elevat- ed site about 100 yards from River Valley Road, Singapore, and just over a mile from the heart of the city.

Keeping Mansion, as the block will be called, will be sited on an

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area bounded by St. Thomas Walk and River Valley Road. The Y-shape relates well with surrounding residen- tial buildings and provides an interest- ing layout with spacious landscaped gardens and pleasant driveways. The shape also gives excellent cross- ventilation, unobstructed views from

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20 30 40 FT.

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every room and complete privacy for each apartment.

A panoramic view of Singapore will be obtained from all levels of the building. Each floor. from first to eighteenth, consists of three apart- ments, linked by a central core of lift wells, lobby and common pas- sages. Each apartment occupies one arm of the Y-shape.

The first floor of the building is elevated to a height of 17 ft. from the ground level and the space below is utilised for covered car parking. Ad- ditional car parking spaces are laid out in the basement floor where the mechanical ventilating plant is hous- Two high speed lifts serve all

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floors.

Floor area of each apartment is about 1,800 sq. ft. It has three large bedrooms, three bathrooms, living room, dining room, kitchen and ser- vants quarters with separate toilet and shower facilities.

Wide balconies are provided for the living and dining rooms, and two of the bedrooms, and there is a se- parate entrance to the servants quar- ters.

The building will be supported by a reinforced concrete raft foundation and the structure will comprise a re- inforced concrete framework with brick infill panels.

Teak parquet flooring will be laid in all areas except bathrooms, kit- chen, balconies, lift lobby and stairs which will be finished in mosaics.

Aluminium sliding windows will be fitted and doors will be of tanalized timber framing with teak veneer ply- wood facing

The overall cost of the develop- ment, excluding furnishings. is es- timated at M$2 million.

Far East Architect & Builder May, 1967