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Queen's College at Causeway Bay. A total of 24 classrooms will provide accommodation for 960 pupils; there will be several additional rooms, however, for the teaching of special subjects.

ing area; in the centre section will of the building will be varied by ex- be the last classroom, a domestic tending the main area of the build- science room. a needlework room and ing in front of the main entrance a library, all with their own stores, lobby section with an added corner and lavatories; in the right wing, projecting at the northwest end. apart from the upper parts of the

The outside elevation of the as- On the ground floor, there will be assembly hall and stage, will be a eight classrooms and a large lecture balcony, and a projection room for sembly hall wing will have panel- room for 80 students in the left wing; the showing of films and slides.

led sections framing the upper and laboratories for chemistry. physics

lower windows of the hall with and biology with the necessary pre-

The open playground, which occu- spandrel effects between, over deeply paration rooms and stores in the pies most of the quadrangle, will recessed bays along the ground centre section; and in the right wing contain two basket-ball courts, while floor. under the auditorium. a covered a large turfed playing field adjoining playground together with a handi- the school will be suitable for foot-

The judicious use of contrasting craft room, tuck shop, lavatories. ball and other sports. Entrance to

colours to emphasize the panelled showers, changing rooms and the the new, reinforced concrete school and projecting features and to the pump house.

will be by means of a driveway from walls of the main entrance hall will Sai Yee Street, which is actually be an important decorative element about 25 feet below the general level in relieving the otherwise severe wall

masses of the building. of the site.

Accommodation provided in the left wing on the first floor will in- clude eight classrooms and the geography room; in the centre sec- tion at this level will be three staff rooms. two senior staff rooms, the headmaster's room adjoining a gen- eral office, a medical inspection room, and lavatories; and in the right wing and occupying its entire area will be the assembly hall gymnasium with its large stage.

On the second floor in the left wing will be seven classrooms. a music room at the extreme end of the wing, and an art room with its own store and a skylight covering approximately one third of the cell

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the Architectural Office of the Public The school has been designed by Works Department, and its principal is Mr. Cheong Wal Fung, formerly Inspector of Schools. General Contractors: Sang Lee &

Co. (1945).

The school is being constructed on a specially formed site, levelled out from the hillside which runs along the south side extending eastward to the Diocesan of Waterloo Road. Boys School, and will be а con- spicuous landmark in that part of Kowloon. The design of the build- Crittall Metal Windows: Dodwell & ing will be along modern lines, the principal architectural feature of Suspended Ceilings: Kan Tat & Co. which will be the sunshade fins ex- Membrane Roofing: Dreyer & Co., Ltd. tending from the windows on the Tile-Tex Asphalt Floor Tiles: Holland- main elevation on Sai Yee Street China Trading Co., Ltd. side which is facing in westerly Electrical Installation: direction. On this side, the lines Electric Co.

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