Entrance to the offices is from between Individual offices being 44 Duddell Street, through an arcade inches thick. All windows are of steel. along the northern wall of the The roof is insulated with Fibreglass, building. This arcade leads to the and covered with rock asphalt water- lift and staircase lobby. This lobby
proofing. is so located that it is possible to divide each floor by partitions into two large offices: the front office would be some 2,800 square feet in area, while that at the back would cover 1,200 square feet. These large areas may be further subdivided into smaller individual offices.
External finishes include beige coloured Botticino marble
on the ground floor, grey-brown tiles above this, and Shanghai plaster to the top floor. Louvers are finished bright yellow, windows grey, and floor lines white. The external colour scheme
The building has been erected to the maximum height permissible was carefully worked out and the under the Building Ordinance. The result is a facade of striking origina- adjoining buildings are actually lity. higher than the new building, but this is due to the fact that the Ordinance has been revised since ings, are finished with lime plaster: their construction.
A secondary staircase has been provided almost in the centre of the south side of the building. Lavatories are situated on each floor, alternately for ladies and gentlemen.
A great deal of care was taken to see that the ceilings are tidy: this was achieved by the careful design of all beams so that they are of the same depth.
The building is of reinforced con- crete frame construction, with rein- forced concrete floors and roof. Walls are of brick, the internal partitions
Most inside walls, and all the ceil-
lift halls have walls finished in marble. Floors are mainly of teak parquet, except for those in the lift halls and the lavatories, which, together with the staircases, are tiled. The workshop occupying the rear section of the ground floor has been left with a cement rendered surface.
The columns in the front section of each floor are circular and fluted on plan; those at the rear are rectan- gular.
Architects: Leigh & Orange (Mr.
J. F. Howorth).
General Contractors: Siu Kin öz
Company.
Piling: Vibro Piling Co., Ltd.
Marble Work: Raoul Bigazzi.
Plumbing: Dodwell & Co., Ltd.
Crittall Windows: Dodwell & Co.,
Ltd.
Rock Asphalt Roofing: William
Jacks & Co., Ltd.
Fibreglass Insulation:
Wicking & Co., Ltd.
Harry
Express Lifts: The British General
Electric Co., Ltd.
Main Electrical Installation: The
Jardine Engineering Corpn., Ltd.
Door Furniture: Shewan, Tomes & Co., Ltd., William Jacks & Co.. Ltd., and Gilman & Co., Ltd.
Tiling: Sino-British (Hong Kong)
Ltd., and Lee Yu Kee.
Copies of photographs in this issue. may be obtained from Hong Kong Building Service Ltd.,
117, Prince's Bldg., Ice House St. Telephone 26062
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