No_1_May_and_June__1951 — Page 11

Embassy Court with Sunning Court in the background

An outstanding building has recent- ly been completed in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong, the apart- ment block known as Embassy Court. This is a nine storey building erected by the Atlas Realty Co. Ltd., one of the Lee Hysan group of companies who also own the majority interest in Sunning Court.

This nine storey building provides high class residential facilities in the town area of Victoria and has been

designed with the object of providing accommodation for both large fam- lies, for whom five room apartments are available, or for couples or single in- dividuals, for whom there are two-room studio apartments consisting of a com- bined living room-bedroom. Whereas in Sunning Court a great deal of the accommodation was converted into a hotel with furnished rooms let on a daily or monthly basis, and only a proportion leased as private flats, the

The reception rooms of the penthouse apartment

EMBASSY COURT

whole of Embassy Court will be let as private apartments, the rental basis being set as low as is consistent with present construction costs and the fact that no premium of any kind is levied on the prospective tenant. The popularity of the studio apartments was proved by the fact that the entire fifteen units were rented during one week-end at rents of from $600/650.00 per month. The larger apartinents are also fully occupied, all the leases being for two years periods. The smaller flats, in addition to the main room, have a full sized kitchen, large sized fully equipped bathroom and built-in cup- boards providing facilities excelling anything obtainable in local hotels and boarding houses at rates which com- with their favourably pare charges.

very

As will be seen from the typical floor plan, each of the floors from the second to the seventh floor are divided into four apartments, two large, and two small. The large apartments have three bedrooms the largest of which is approximately 13' x 19' including a large cupboard and clothes closet, with separate attached bathroom. The second bedroom is 15'6" by a little over 12' wide and also includes a built-in cupboard. The third room is so designed that it can be used either as a bedroom or may form part of the living room/dining room combination. There is a rear servants' balcony at the inside corners of the rear of the building. This balcony communicates with the small apartment through the servant's staircase and with the larger apartment from the kitchen. Two servants' rooms are provided off this balcony.

The west side of the 8th floor con- tains two apartments similar to those on the floors below, but the east side forms part of the penthouse apartment of the owner. All the bedroom accom- modation is confined to this floor, which also includes a family living room. The ninth floor is the main floor of the pent-house apartment. From the impressive foyer the visitor is introduced to the very sumptuous and formal living room which directly communicates with the dining room, both of which are of generous propor- tions. They open on to the main terrace throngh wide folding doors, and from this very fine open terrace which is

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