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The 1200 ft. long access road which cost $720,000, had to be declared a public road.

The main bedroom extends on to a balcony on one side and a dressing room and bathroom on the other. This bathroom has two washbasins, a 5 ft. 6 in bath with a separate shower recess.

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The dressing FOOM contains dressing table in a bay cantilevered beyond the normal building line with natural light on both sides for the woman of the house, and a mirrored recess for the man. It is surrounded on all sides by cubpoards and closets.

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The second bedroom has its own connecting bathroom, while the third and fourth share another bathroom.

The bedroom/bathroom wing con- nects by a central corridor to a long dining/living room area with a large protruding balcony.

Kitchen, utility area and servants' quarters are in the rear wing. The utility area has twin stainless steel washtubs and the kitchen. large twin bowl sinks.

There are lavish light and power points as well as several television outlets. All wiring throughout the building is concealed in conduits

CONSTRUCTION AND COSTS

Tavistock is built of A grade, high stress concrete, which necessitated constant supervision on the site by an engineer. Costs savings however, were considerable. The building, not including piling, lifts or site formation cost $5,650,000.

Piling, because of the shaly, poor load bearing nature of the sub soil and a geological fault line was diffi- cult and expensive. Altogether 364 21 inch diameter piles were driven to an average depth of 38 feet over the 3,600 square feet covered area. The work took about four months and cost $620,000.

Site formation, including the build- ing of a 1200 ft. access road, cost $720,000. An extraordinary amount of rock and soil had to be excavated. The 16 ft. wide concrete road, which as a condition of the lease had to be made a public road connecting up with the old terminal of Old Peak Road, required three culverts over intersecting nullahs.

The R. C. floor is of ribbed con- struction with concrete hollow block infills.

Floor to ceiling height is 10 feet with beams generally concealed.

◄ The imposing ground floor entrance.

THE HONG KONG & FAR EAST BUILDER-VOLUME 19, NUMBER 3

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