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FORFAR ROAD FLATS

Modern Apartments off Argyle Street

As always, in the vanguard of the development of Kowloon, the Credit Foncier d'Extrême-Orient have once more taken the initiative in the development of an area in Kowloon which has just been made available for building. This area is to the north of Kowloon Hos- pital and embraces that part of Argyle Street which was recently opened with the completion of the cutting of Argyle Street through to Prince Edward Road. In this ideal location for European residential buildings, Messrs Credit Foncier d'Extreme-Orient have erected a three- storied double block of flats containing four one-room studio apartments, two three-room apartments, and four four-room apartments, which are completely self-contained with ample pantry, kitchen and servants space, and each bedroom provided with its own bathroom and built-in cupboards.

A very interesting feature of the design of the larger flats is the manner in which the entrance lobby

Plan of the area surrounding the apartment buildings and (below) photograph of this area,

has been made part of the living room. This feature is a departure from the normal layout, in which the hallway in a flat is considered to be a neces- sary evil, the only justi- fication for its existence being its convenience as a distribution centre for guests and visitors. An- other conventional func- tion of the hallway is to separate the bedroom sec- tion of the flat from the living room section. Con- sequently, in normal lay- outs the hallway is sand- wiched somewhere in the

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