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NEW

Hong Kong Builder

APARTMENT

BUILDING

ON DIFFICULT SITE AT WYNDHAM STREET

23

KIT

BAL

An unusual view of the Apartment Building on Wyndham Street.

TILL

D

G

·HEL BRICK

PART.

HALL

+

BATH

L R

LILOCHY

First Floor Plan showing typical arrangement of apartment on each floor.

MASTER

5-12° COM PLASTER

A very unusual shaped building, built on a very

unusual site, was recently completed at 69 Wyndham

Street. The rear of the building presents a much more

interesting aspect than the front view as the irregular

triangular shape of the building with the narrow end

fronting on Wyndham Street gives the impression of

its having been jammed between two old style residential

buildings behind which it seems to be hiding.

Looking across the vista of slum streets and build-

ings, this apartment block seems to spring from the filth

and squalor beneath it, like a Phoenix rising from the

ashes of its own destruction.

The shape of the house must have given the Archi-

tect, Mr. L. Biau, many a headache, as the fitting in of

rooms, halls, lifts, and stairways, not to mention kitchens

and servants quarters, in the size and shape presented

by this site must have taxed his ingenuity to the utmost.

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