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AMERICAN SCHOOL, SINGAPORE

room, sick bay, tea preparation room, store rooms, changing rooms and lavatories.

Most of the buildings are two storeys high, so that a large propor- tion of the six acre site is left free for playing areas and for gardens, giving a relaxed and airy feeling to the whole enterprise.

A simple but effect porch en- trance in the main administrative block sets a dignified key the school. Immediately above the porch is a pattern of concrete grilles, whose discreet proportions make a con- trast to the vertical pattern of the fenestration of the whole block and the horizontal effect of the block in the background.

All materials, exterior and in- terior, have been chosen with the two aims of durability in a testing climate and to easy and cheap main-

tenance.

Architects for the School are Ho Kwong Yew and Sons, with Mr. Ho Kok Hoe as partner in charge and Mr. Ho Kok Yin as partner in

EXISTING

BUILDING

BLOCK ©

BLOCK D

DRIVEWAY

BLOCK

CAR PARK

PLAYGROUND

RESERVE

FOR

ROAD

BLOCK (B)

EXT. BUILDINGS

TO BE DEMOLISHED

لية

DRIVEWAY

ROAD

KING'S

+

SITE PLAN

SCALE

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192 256FT.

THE HONG KONG & FAR EAST BUILDER VOLUME 17, NUMBER 2