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a choir of 120 singers, and has been designed to enable transformation into a fully-equipped stage in a matter of hours, for Chinese opera and other productions.

A studio and control room for wireless broadcasts will be situated at the rear of the concert hall at a raised level.

The dressing room, practice and green rooms block has been planned behind the platform and stage area, and is to be entered from the eastern end of the site by way of two entrances, both of which will be isolated from the general circulation of the building.

The theatre will be placed on the north-south axis of the central block and will seat 470 people on a stepped floor.

Like the concert hall, the theatre will have splayed side walls and sloping ceiling.

The stage will be of a size to con- tain a comprehensive installation of equipment necessary for full-scale productions, and facilities will be provided for showing films. Broadcast- ing will also take place from the theatre via a studio and control room which are to be placed at the rear on either side of the auditorium, with 1 wide sweep of vision. Behind, and attached to the stage will be a single- storey building containing the dressing and property rooms, etc.

The high block, sited on Con- naught Road Central, will be linked by a single storey air-condition- ing plantroom with the theatre, and by the colonnade around the memorial garden.

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First floor plan.

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Second floor plan.

Section B-B

The 7th floor will contain space for exhibitions and on the 8th floor there will be two lecture rooms to seat 160

to show films.

The building will house the entrance foyer, with three high-speed passenger lifts and reception desk. On the first floor will be placed the Marriage persons each. These will be equipped Registry and from the 2nd to 6th floors will be the children's, periodi- cals, lending, reference and Chinese libraries, together with the necessary stack rooms.

On the 9th floor will be placed the administrative offices and two com- mittee rooms. The remaining two floors will house the museum and art

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gallery, which are to be linked by an independent staircase.

A rectangular area of open space enclosed on two sides by the central block, theatre and air-conditioning rooms, and on the remaining two sides by the colonnade, has been designed as a memorial garden.

Section A-A

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