HOMANTIN MANSIONS
Architect: Mr. Auyeung Kai
Architect's perspective of the new building.
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The arrangement of the eight flats per upper floor.
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In our previous issues we reported quiet yet centrally located and that many apartment blocks have short distance from the busy shop- been built, are in course of erection, ping districts. In addition to these or are being planned. Nevertheless, advantages, there are many schools the demand for apartments is still nearby, and recreation grounds are fairly_constant, both in Hong Kong not far away. and Kowloon. A good many of these apartments are being built on what
This four-storeyed building on Ho can be loosely termed a co-operative Man Tin Road is designed as four The promoters either have attached yet distinct buildings arranged or are hoping to arrange for the sale of the apartments.
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One of these projects will be situ- ated in an ideal area of Kowloon,
that is two flats, has however been eliminated to provide a quadrangle car port, and therefore there is a total of thirty flats in the whole pro- ject.
This quadrangle will also serve as the entrance way to the building through two double stairways, each set on either side of the courtyard. This car port will be covered so that tenants can proceed from their park- ed cars to the entrances under cover in all weathers.
Open area is provided for around the buildings, giving each apartment ample light and air circulation so that in spite of the condensed character of the planning, the flats will be light and airy.
Every effort will be made to pro- vide a good finish to interiors, with teak parquet floors in the living. dining and bedrooms, mosaic tiles for floor and dado in the bathrooms, screened food cupboards in the kit- chens, convenient built-in clothes closets in the bedrooms, and a book- case division between the dining and living rooms.
At the moment, there is no water-
borne drainage in this district, but an application has been made to the Health Authority for a septic tank, so that complete flush system can be installed in the building, and can be used temporarily through the septic tank and connected later on to the outside sewers when they are laid
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about a large central courtyard. The building is owned by Messrs. Each storey of each building is P. F. Lau & Company of Wing On divided into two flats, making a total Life Building, and it is expected that of eight flats per floor. The front the flats will be sold at a reasonable central section of the ground floor, cost, in most cases below $50,000 each.
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