No_11_November_1969 — Page 13

OCEAN

HARB

TERMINAL

HARBOUR CENTRE

800-bed hotel completes Harbour Centre project

STAR

FERRY PIER

HARBOUR

KOWLOON COMER.

CENTRE

FOR the consortium of owners which developed and operates the Ocean Terminal and the adjacent Star House office block, the new Hongkong Hotel fills the last gap and provides the final purpose in Asia's largest multi-purpose complex of buildings.

The Ocean Terminal, already claim. ed to be the largest shopping centre in Asia, is now expanded by a further three floors of shops in the hotel, which in turn link with the shopping arcades on the lower floors of Star House. Above the shops, at the land- ward end of the terminal, rise a further

HARBOUR CENTRE DEVELOPMENT LTD.

ERIC CUMINE ASSOCIATES

HSIN CHONG & CO. LTD.

owners

architects and engineers

main contractor

14 hotel floors, the top ten of which joined the project and a joint venture contain 800 guest rooms.

Owners of the hotel site, Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co. Ltd., originally planned its develop ment in 1965 as a composite building with 670 bachelor flats, a cinema, supermarket, shopping arcade, offices and a small restaurant. In early 1967, after Metropolitan Investors Ltd. had

Harbour Centre Development Ltd. had been formed, the owners took note of the universal shortage of hotel rooms in the colony and decided to in- vestigate the feasibility of turning the building into a hotel.

The architects were instructed to revise their planning to a hotel scheme for cost study and also for negotiation

Kowloon peninsula showing the new hotel placed between the Ocean Terminal and Star House (right)

Far East BUILDER, November 1969

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