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SHATIN

HEIGHTS HOTEL

Architects: Messrs. Leigh & Orange

General view of the new hotel from the east.

Recently completed, and opened, was a most attractive sites with splendid maximum area to be used for parking and residential hotel at Shatin about seven views.

also to take the best advantage of the miles from the Star Ferry. Located on a

It is on one such site that the Shatin view, the building has been sited in the spur, 200 feet above sea level, just to the

Heights Hotel has been built. Most of extreme southwest corner of the lot. A south of Taipo Road, the Shatin Heights Hotel commands magnificent views of the the hill left after the formation of the small piece of the origina! hill has been the left near the road to form a screen be- Shatin Valley, Amah Rock and the whole new cutting has been removed and range of hills to the south and south-west, spoil used for filling parts of the site to tween

the bedroom wing; this the south and the northwest, providing isolates the latter as much as possible space for the dining room terrace and for from the view of the road and reduces

In order the car park.

the traffic noises.

Being the first hotel in the district. some critics at first maintained that it would never become popular because it was too far from town. The owner's faith in the project has, however, proved well founded and 80% of the rooms have been continuously occupied since they were completed. The restaurant, too, is fast becoming a favourite stop-over for people driving around the New Territories, and a popular evening rendezvous for re- sidents on both sides of the harbour who enjoy dining in its very pleasant and original surroundings.

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Before the war. Taipo Road was quite narrow thoroughfare winding tor- tuously through the hills and conforming closely to their natural contours. The road has since been widened and straight- ened in many places by the cutting of hills and the filling of depressions. The abandoned curves. remaining after such operations, have in several cases been sold for building purposes and often. be- cause of their very location, have made

to allow

it and

Photograph of the hotel and entrance from the west.

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