The
Electrical installation & "Williams
& Williams' Metal Doors: China Engineers Ltd. "Carrier" Air-conditioning installa- tion: International Engineering
Ltd.
Lift installation: Otis Elevator Co. Sanitary & plumbing installation, "'Crittall" Metal Windows, "Roneo" Banking hall furniture & "Foamite" fire extinguishers: Dodwell & Co., Ltd.
"Chubb's" Strongrooms & vault equipment, "Magneta" Electric
ton
"Union"
locks & William Jacks & Co. Ltd. "Asphalt" Waterproofing material
Dryer & Co.
Ltd.
Cork tiles. The conditioned air is distributed
evenly into various areas
areas through Tuttle & Bailey grilles, and returns into corridors. All grilles are provid- ed with individual shutters so that complete regulation of air-conditioning is made possible.
Glazed aluminium partitioning:
Hongkong Aluminium Ltd.
Metal Doors (locally made): China
Steel Works Ltd.
& China Gas Co. Ltd.
All Carrier compressors are provided with automatic capacity unloaders
Gas installation: The Hong Kong which can vary the capacity according to actual loading condition, with Polished Italian Granite: American changing оссирапсу and climatic
Engineering Corp.
conditions. This provision makes it
The Bank is equipped with a 572- possible to save the operating cost to
Carrier air-conditioning plant a great extent.
Clocks & "Lumenated" Panels which operates on the following basis: Automatic controls for controlling (Ceiling Lights): The Jardine
The inside summer conditions will the temperature and humidity, manu- Engineering Corp. Ltd.
be maintained at 78 deg.F. dry bulb factured by Minneapolis Honeywell, Marble and Bronze work: Raoul with relative humidity of 55 percent maintain the desired temperature and
when outside is 92 deg.F. dry bulb
humidity. Fine regulation is accom- and 82 deg.F. wet bulb. The inside Flished by face and by-pass damper
Bigazzi. Mosaic frieze: Demig Trading Co.
(Far East) Ltd.
Marble Tiles (Banking hall floor):
J. Wong & Co.
winter conditions will be maintained at
control and reheat coils.
The International
Engineering authorised distributors of
70 deg. F. with relative humidity of 55 per cent when outside is 40 deg.F. Limited, The fresh air requirements will be Carrier, has placed the services of Dunlop Vinylex flooring: Sino.
based on 15 cubic feet of air per more than 40 engineers, technicians, British (Hongkong) Ltd.
minute per person. The noise level and skilled workers on this one Pilikington's "Armourplate" glass of the air distribution system will not installation to make the Chartered doors: Shewan, Tomes & Co. exceed five decibels above normal Bank plant one of the most up-to-date
room noise level.
and efficient in the Colony.
Ltd.
New Hong Kong Varsity Lecturer in Architecture
A newcomer on the Hong Kong architectural scene is 32-year-old Mr. Dale Smith, who has arrived from London to take up the post of lecturer in architecture at Hong Kong Univer- sity.
We talked to him in one of the University's lecture rooms as he was drawing up his teaching schedule in preparation for the opening of the new varsity year.
Mopping his brow in intense after- noon heat, Mr. Dale Smith said he had not yet had time to form any significant opinion about the Colony's architectural development. For the time being he was merely absorbing information and moisture!
After studying at the Architectural Association, in London Mr. Dale Smith joined the firm of Frederick Gibberd, master planner of Harlow New Town, and architect for London Airport.
Mr. Dala Smith
On the general subject of architec- of exacting data an architect had to ture, Mr. Dale Smith said he was have at his finger tips and which he keenly appreciative of the multitude must understand completely and know
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how to apply, so that he might fully integrate his part in today's social and technical developments.
were
Architecture could quite easily be come а social disease through its constructional techniques side alone. (even if great advancements made in structural, functional, and social planning) if persistence in ignoring such things as thermal con- ditions, sound transmissions, and ventilation continued.
his
Therefore technical knowledge could no longer be superficial and the archi- tect must learn to use it with aesthetic sense exerting a strong dis- cipline to combine the two, so that a building not only looked good but was good.
A trite factual training was not the only answer. An attempt should be made to inculcate in students a sense of enquiry so that as each problem arose in its own peculiar circumstance, they could make their own assess- ments of how technical knowledge should be applied.
THE HONG KONG & FAR EAST BUILDER
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VOLUME 14, NUMBER 2
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