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PEACE MANSIONS

APARTMENT BLOCK,

TAI HANG ROAD.

Architect:-

G. D. Su, B. Sc.

(Arch.) Michigan.

Use of short stairways, which com- bine with spaciousness on different floor levels to convey an impression of residing in a house, is a feature of apartments contained in Peace Man- sions, a recently-completed block in Tai Hang Road, overlooking Happy Valley, Hong Kong.

Another notable feature is the use of colourful tiles in all the main entrance lobbies.

The building consists of 13 storeys,

Frontal view of block.

12 of them housing 36 flats three The site, which commands a fine to a floor while the ground floor view of the harbour, has been terraced is devoted to a lobby and a parking into three levels. The bottom level area for 36 cars. The owners are the is given over to a children's play- Huey Tai Investment Co. Ltd. ground, the middle one is the garden,

RAILING

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TERRACE GARDEN

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and the apartment block occupies the main one. Another children's play. ground is laid out at the rear of the building.

On each floor there are three differently-sized flats. Features of the two larger ones are a roomy bar- cum-servery, with veneer walls, open- ing onto the living room.

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Ground floor plan.

Typical floor plan.

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