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Award for Pilkington Head Office

THE new head office and canteen which Pilkington Bros.. the glass makers, opened in 1964 has won a Class 1 Award from Britain's Civic Trust. The awards are made annually "to create a greater awareness of the problems of environmental design in all its aspects,"

The assessor's report on the Pilkington project said: "The site chosen was an area of 16 acres of abandoned early mine workings adjoining the glass works. From the road the site slopes down to a small valley containing a reservoir. The architect Mr. E. Maxwell Fry, exploited its possibilities by extending the reservoir to form a lake of more than 3 acres.

"The scheme emerged as five closely related build- ings along the lakeside, comprising a 13-storey tower with lower buildings grouped around. Separated from the main complex the canteen building faces south down the

Main office buildings

lake. It serves the works as well as the offices and is approached in an imaginative way by a bridge across the lake, or by a covered corridor built into the slope with terraces above.

"The buildings themselves are of exceptional quality, beautifully detailed using good materials. The landscap- ing creates a pleasing environment and the treatment of the large sheet of ornamental water between the office and the works is very successful."

French Consortium Win £28M. Indus Project

A CONTRACT for the construction of the Chasma Barrage across the River Indus, West Pakistan, valued at approx- imately £28 million, has been awarded to a consortium of French contractors, Societe Dumez and Les Entreprises de Travaux Publics Andre Borle.

The contract, financed by the World Bank forms part of the Indus Basin Development Scheme for irriga- tion which has been under construction since 1960. Coode and Partners, London, are the consulting engineers, the principals being the West Pakistan Water and Power De- velopment authority.

A.I.A.'s Gold Medal

Mr. Wallace K. Harrison, of the firm of Harrison & Abramovitz, New York, has been awarded the 1967 Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects. The award will be presented at the 99th A.I.A. convention to be held in New York City on May 14-18. Mr. Harrison has been involved with the design of such projects as Rockefeller Centre, the United Nations, and the Metro- politan Opera at Lincoln Centre.

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Far East Architect & Builder May, 1967