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A MODERN CHAPEL FOR CHUNG CHI COLLEGE

Architects: Chau & Lee

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A chapel which will be a focal point in the spacious campus of Chung Chi College, overlooking Tolo Harbour, in the New Territories has

been designed by a young Hong Kong

architect Mr. Chau Kai-Heem B.Sc. (Eng.), B.Arch. Hons., A.R.I.B.A.

It is perhaps appropriate that his first project in Hong Kong is a chapel. since it was from Durham, a famous cathedral city, that he graduated in

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architecture. Before going to England, Mr. Chau gained his B.Sc. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Hong Kong, and after graduating from Durham University, he worked in London for 1 years with Easton and Robertson, consultant architects for the new Kowloon Hospital. He is the son of Mr. I.N. Chau, of Chau and Lee, and has been with the firm since returning from Britain at the beginning of the year.

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THE HONG KONG & FAR EAST BUILDER - VOLUME 14, NUMBER 4

The Chung Chi College chapel is to be erected on an elevated site in the north west of the campus, and it is intended that it should be seen pro- minently from the station serving the College on the Kowloon-Canton rail- way.

While modern in concept, the chapel is to retain ecclesiastic dignity and limitations. As with many mo- dern-day churches, a bell tower has been omitted but a single spire has been retained to give a finishing touch to the well massed building.

To utilise the nature of the site, accommodation for a Student Chris- tian Centre is provided in two levels underneath the front of the Chapel. This will entail a more impressive front to the building, and economy in the design.

An outstanding feature is a large picture window behind the altar. Instead of the traditional stained glass, light transparent coloured glass is used to allow the distant hills to set a "softened" and serene back- ground to the altar. The Chapel will seat a congregation of 600 148 of them in the gallery. Short steps will lead to the altar, flanked by choir lofts on either side.

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