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Builder
The allget Tonde Jurnal in the Far East
DECEMBER, 1964. Vol. 19. No. 4
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IN THIS ISSUE...
NEW CONSTRUCTION
Far East Asia's Largest Produce Market Singapore Science Tower Will Ease Crowding Taking Advantage of a Long, Narrow Site Urban Renewal Scheme for Singapore Kowloon Flyover Ready in 16 Months Latest Techniques for New Henry House Huge Office Project for Kowloon
ARTICLES
Candid Comment
The Future of Hong Kong's Building Industry "Who Should Train the Skilled Worker?"
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Hong Kong Architects' Annual Dinner Taiwan's Woman Architect
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Garbage Chutes for Efficient Disposal
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White Paper on Squatters
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Estimating Daylight in Buildings Instant Housing Booms in Britain
BUILDING PLANS APPROVED
Hong Kong
Singapore Rural
Singapore City
Penang
CONTRACTS AWARDED
Singapore Hong Kong
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CANDID COMMENT: The Development Crisis
TH
HE introduction in Hong Kong of Buildings (Amendment) (No. 2) Ordinance No. 27 of 1964, has high-lighted a situation which touches the communiy welfare or pocket book depending on the
the sector from which one comes. It has en- gendered a good deal of strong feel- ing among developers, their archi- tects and the public, though not all from the same point of view.
A commentary on the situation might help to put it into perspective.
No claim to originality is made to all the following comments; the fac tors affecting the situation would ap- pear to be these:-
Large areas of Victoria and Kow- loon consist of old buildings, mainly of the tenement type, three or four storeys high, built in rows or blocks, with approximately a 16 ft. frontage and a depth of site of 30 ft. to 40 ft.
They were built 40 to 70 years ago, generally of poor materials and
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By Professor W. G. Gregory.
THE HONG KONG & Far East BUILDER-VOLUME 19, NUMBER 4
construction, and a terrace of these consists of a row of party walls with floors and roofs formed of round China fir joints and purlins covered with boarding and pan-and-roll tiles respectively. The main feature, if such it may be termed, is that there is little lateral support to these im- portant party walls and what there is, is derived from the buildings on either side. Therefore in each block of buildings, each is dependent on the whole, and there is a semblance to the "houses" that children build with playing cards.
Even the best of building materi- als decay and structures weaken with age, as use and the weather take ac- tion, In these old buildings this is mainly apparent in the decay of the mortar forming the joints to the bricks, which are themselves soft and poor in quality; the mortar used con- taining lime and red earth (with or without cement) no longer binds the brickwork together and cases exist where the mortar has fallen out of
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