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External lift tower – non-stop to ninth floor
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FOUR strategically located external lift towers, 100ft. high, with high speed carriages capable of moving 50 people at a time, will be used for mass vertical transport in Hong Kong's biggest low cost housing estate.
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The estate Kwai Shing is being built on four levels totalling 48 acres and carved out of hilly terrain on the Texaco Peninsular at Kwai Chung in the New Territories. The site is south west of Tai Wo Han resettlement estate and west of Castle Peak Road, near Gin Drinker's Bay.
From a bus terminus at + 100 p.d. residents will be carried non-stop up nine floors to + 190 p.d. level where a second tower will carry them to + 270 p.d. The top level of the site is at + 343 p.d.
Kwai Shing Estate will cost about HK$80 million to develop and will eventually house 81,000 people in 20 multi-storey blocks. Of these 17 will be 20-storeys high, each installed with four or more 20-passenger lifts.
Other blocks will be of seven-storeys and the estate will also include eight schools with a total of 192 classrooms for primary education, eight kindergar- tens, 83 shops, 170 vegetable stalls un- der six long single-storey structures,
50-person lifts will serve HK's biggest low-cost estate
Model of Kwai Shing estate
Far East BUILDER, April 1969
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