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yards or skylights. The roof of the treatment sec- tions is in the form of a large terrace connected to the raised plateau.

The five patient buildings are linked by a through corridor which is in direct contact with the raised plateau where patients and visitors can move about

London hotel will have 2,000 bedrooms

Britain's Grand Metropolitan Hotels Group has announced plans for a giant new hotel in London. It will be sited opposite the West London air termi- nal in Cromwell Road, Kensington, and will have more than 2,000 bedrooms, making it the largest in Europe.

Of striking exterior appearance, the building will also include a large conference centre and underground car parks. It is expected to cost be

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New Kensington hotel

Model of Hvidovre hospital

in park-like surroundings. The corridor also con- tains restaurants, kiosks and lounge rooms.

Architects for the scheme are Krohn & Hartvig Rasmussen, Klampenborgvej 239, Lyngby.

Sweden's largest exhibition hall

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An exhibition hall covering almost 250,000 sq. ft. Sweden's largest is to be built by the St. Erik's Fair at Alvsjo on the southern outskirts of Stockholm. The project will cost about US$4 million.

The building will be large enough to permit its division into sections to make it possible to arrange several exhibitions simultaneously. Supporting columns will be spaced at an average distance of 21.6 metres, while the highest part of the building, capable of holding exhibits 20 metres tall, will

tween £15 and £20 million; five years ago the 510- have an unobstructed space of about 3,100 sq. bedroom London Hilton cost £1 million.

The architects are R. Seifert and Partners, London.

Novel design of Copenhagen hospital

A new 1,000 bed hospital to be erected at Hvidovre, Copenhagen, will be a complete depar- ture from traditional design. From the outside it will appear as a two-storey pavilion structure on a large plateau. But the plateau will in fact contain all treatment sections as a cohesive building system spread under the two-storey patient buildings.

The hospital will in effect be five independent hospitals each of 200 beds. This decentralising of the patient sections will permit close contact with the treatment sections underneath, each of which is linked to the respective categories of patients.

The raised plateau contains two storeys, one projecting above the general level. Part of the low- est level provides space for about 1,000 cars. Treat- ment sections are sunlit from large atrium court-

metres.

In a gallery on the entrance side there will be banking, post and telecommunications offices, rest rooms, cloak rooms, cafeterias and pubs and also some 70 offices set aside for exhibitors. For con- ference purposes, the new building can easily ac- commodate an assembly of 4,000 persons and at the same time provide some ten committee rooms for up to 450. Other possible uses are indoor athle- tic events.

The contract for the new building has been awarded to Armerad Betong, Stockholm. Construc- tion is to be completed before the end of 1970. Space-ship type weekend house

Feature of an exhibition of Finnish designs held recently in London was a weekend house made entirely from plastics and looking like a futuristic space-ship.

Created by Finnish architect, Matti Surronen, the elliptical-shaped house stands on four pairs of

Far East BUILDER, January 1969.

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