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OCEAN VIEW

COURT

KOWLOON

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Architect:

J. S. MORAES

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The rate of building of apartment The promoters of Ocean View Court at their factory in Hull, England. blocks in the Colony of Hong Kong have one of the most desirable loca- This Company is the British subsidi- seems to be maintaining a steady tions in Kowloon, at the corner of ary of the American Standard, New pace. There is no doubt that there is Mody and Chatham Roads on the site York, and Messrs. Inniss & Riddle every indication that the supply is formerly occupied by the "Harbour (China) Ltd. are also their local re-

than catching up with the View" and "Arlington" Hotels. It is presentatives.

more

demand, and builders are becoming very near the Star Ferry and the Ample lift facilities will be provid- more selective in their choice of loca- shopping district, and overlooks the ed, as nine large elevators of the latest tions. More desirable sites will still beautiful harbour view facing south type will be installed. These lifts will find ready tenants, and although con- and east. It is a large block fifteen be equipped with all safety devices struction of this type of residence is storeys high on its main frontage on and will be capable of a speed of 200 going on all over the Colony, the Chatham Road, and eleven storeys feet per minute.

areas around Macdonnell Road and high on Mody Road, and really com- The scheme is an ambitious one as Bowen Road in Hong Kong and the prises thirteen separate buildings the total cost of the project will be in Tsim Sha Tsui District of Kowloon, welded into one large unit. The ap- the vicinity of $10,000,000, of which because of their convenience and ac- pearance of the building will be very $3,500,000 represents the value of cessibility, are at

at the moment the impressive with the lines of the bal land and $6,500,000 the cost of most popular.

conies heavily emphasized, providing the building. The cost of the piling the main architectural feature, and alone is over $440,000, while the lift the lights for lift halls between the installations will cost a further six balcony divisions providing the ver- lakhs. tical features.

SCALE:

MODY

ROAD

50

100

ISOFT

4

6 12 A

56

12

HART AVENUE

K.I.L. 6453 R. P.

CHATHAM

ROAD

It is the intention of the builders to

The project will occupy a total area sell these flats, and in the planning of approximately 36,394 square feet, they have provided for apartments the greatest overall height being 160 ranging in size from 789 square feet feet exclusive of machine rooms and to 2,457 square feet, catering to an other roof structures.

extremely large variety of prospective The ground floor consists of thirteen tenants, with financial commitments spacious shops fronting both Mody starting at about $27,000 and extend- Road and Chatham Road, with the ing to over $102,000 per flat. portion behind the shops to be used To facilitate the financial arrange- as garages. There will be a one-way ments, payments can be made either motor drive 15 feet wide partly in the for cash in fifteen equal monthly pay- open and partly covered. The upper ments or by a deposit of a lump sum floors contain 162 three-roomed flats, equal to about 50% of the cost of the 28 four-roomed flats and 36 five-room- apartment with the balance payable ed flats, making 226 flats in all. in 24 monthly payments.

All the bathroom fixtures are manu- We feel sure that these buildings factured by the Ideal Standard Ltd. when completed in about ten months'

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