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IMPERIAL HOTEL

NATHAN ROAD

'SCRAPER

OPENING IN

JANUARY

Architect:-

Pak C. Kwong, M. Arch.

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The $9 million, 19-storey Imperial Hotel, now under construction in Nathan Road, Kowloon, opposite Peninsula Court, will be Hong Kong's first postwar hotel to have balconies projecting over the street.

The new premises of Harilela Em-, opened then. It is due to be in full pump house, and other plant. The porium will be housed in part of the operation by June, 1960.

main lobby will occupy the whole basement, and sections of the ground

The property is owned by Mann ground floor. Managerial offices and and first floors, and will be connected Yip Development Ltd. but the hotel a cocktail lounge and bar will be by escalators.

will be managed by the Hotel Fili pinas Inc., Manila. Mr. Pak C. Kwong is the architect.

The Emporium will be the first one in the Colony to have a closed circuit television system.

located on the first floor. The second to the seventeenth floors will be given over entirely to hotel accommodation,

There will be 240 bedrooms. Each while the top floor will be used as

Because of occupancy of the exist. will have teak wood veneer walling the dining room. ing four-storey building on part of up to ceiling height, and all floors Estimates: General contracting $2 the site, the design had to be worked will be carpeted. The interior decora- million, air conditioning $800,000 out for a two-phase construction. The tion is expected to cost about $2 elevators $500,000, plumbing $300, first phase is expected to be completed million. by January and the hotel will be

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Top of page, architect's perspective. Left, Typical floor plan.

General Contractors: Wang Fat

Building Contractors.

Piling Kee Yip Piling Co.

Elevators: Otis Elevators Company. Electrical Wiring: China Engineers

Ltd.

Sanitary Fittings: Lee Yu Kee. Air Conditioning: Yee On Hong

Co. Ltd. (Worthington). Fire Brigade Equipment: Victory

Manufacturing Co.

THE HONG KONG & FAR EAST BUILDER VOLUME 14, NUMBER 2