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Wong Shiu Chee Middle
of ideal setting
THE
E bell tower at the southern corner of the recently completed two-storey Wong Shiu Chee Middle School is already a landmark for Tai Po, as it can be seen for some distance all around.
The new school, on the outskirts of Tai Po Market. is situated on a spacious hill site overlooking the Tai Po typhoon anchorage on the east, and with the Tai Po District Office on the hillside 110 feet above it on the western boundary. South- ern boundary is the Kowloon-Canton Railway and to the north is the Tai Po Road, from which the school is approached. In all it is an ideal site for a school as from its windows there is a fine view over Tai Po and Tolo Harbour.
The site itself
covers 20,000 square feet and was given free by the Hong Kong Government, so that the new school would have an ample playground. From a planning point of view the site was a difficult one, set as it is partly on a steep hillside and partly on marsh land.
Work of site formation involved much hill cutting and filling in of the marsh land with the spoil, after reclaiming, retaining and sea walls had been constructed.
The result is that the architect. Mr. P.Y. Lamb. of Hazeland and Co., has been able to design an at- tractive school of modern appearance and containing the most up-to-date equipment needed in a co-educational middle school.
On the 20,000 square foot site the school buildings have a roof cover of 9,637 square feet and a volume of about 230,000 cubic feet, all constructed at a cost, including site formation, plumbing, wiring and lighting fixtures, of $410,000, or $1.80 per cubic foot.
Accommodation in the school in- cludes nine class rooms for 360 pupils, a library, chemistry labora- tory, physics and biology laboratory, domestic science room, first aid
room, school offices and lavatories. There is also an assembly hall 77
THE HONG KONG & FAR EAST BUILDER-VOLUME 16, NUMBER 4
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