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The "Skyscraper", Built as Clean as a Monument Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce Naval Dockyard Redevelopment, Hong Kong Lu Pan, Patron Saint of Chinese Builders
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COTOBER, 1964.
Vol. 19.
No. 3
Central District Traffic Scheme to Cost $12 million Shaukiwan Maternity Home
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A Palace Fit for a Prince
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Repulse Bay Towers
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Beautifying Ipoh ..
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Tavistock. A Return to Old Style Spaciousness Fanling Lutheran School
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Natural Ventilation of Industrial Buildings Problems in Planning
Glass Fibre and Practical Building
Building Research and the New Look
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Candid Comment "The Concrete Jungle" Hong Kong's Dangerous Old Buildings Check Titles Before Buying Land
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CANDID COMMENT
THE word "jungle" is now a com- mon Americanism. It is appro- priately used to describe anarchical situations in the social structure, or situations where lack of control or discipline force intolerable conditions on people.
Hong Kong has been described as a concrete jungle the word con- crete not to be taken too literally What is meant is that the intensity of development impose an anarchical rule of building over environment.
Ten years ago the cities of Victoria and Kowloon still possessed character and a feeling of belonging to human- ity. To-day they remind one of the exaggerated sets of a horror film. The reasons for the growth of the concrete jungle have been argued on these pages on other occasions, the problem that faces us now is what to do about a situation which is a "fait accompli" and how to approach the future, if Government does not carry out environmental planning.
First, all citizens must regard their urban areas, not solely and merely as
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the concrete jungle.”
THE HONG KONG & FAR EAST BUILDER-VOLI E 19, NUMBER 3
By Professor W. G. Gregory.
a resource for commercial exploita- tion. An urban building site in Hong Kong is like the one time Klondyke gold mine; it is worked to the maxi- mum regardless of anything else, it matters not if it is a "blot on the landscape"; we see every day in the Lockhart and Hollywood Roads of the abandonment and collapse of the workings after the vein of gold has
run out.
The buildings in the urban areas are really the enclosing walls of public space, forming large ceiling- less rooms for the convenience and enjoyment of the public. Are we re- garding them as such? It is doubtful if many architects designing these confining walls of external space con- sider the impact of what they are doing on the public both psychologi- cally and in terms of amenity. Most architects of urban sites appear to be concerned only with the facade of their own building as an entity and not with the overall design of the outside space of which their elevation is a small part,
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