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primarily for hotel guests. On the The restaurant is just under a floor-space. Cameron Road side a long arcade hundred feet long and has over 3,000

On each of the main upper floors runs the length of the building to lead square feet of clear floor-space, in- guests leaving the lift lobby find out through a secondary entrance. It cluding a bandstand. There are no themselves in a long corridor travers- will be occupied by shops and offices columns in this area, since above it ing the centre of the building. engaged in tourist business.

there is only a roofgarden covered by their right is the service lift and a There will be a lift lobby off the a light shelter. The restaurant has

pantry (supplied from the kitchens with four passenger

two subsidiary entrances, one at each below by its own dumbwaiters). There lifts and a service lift (in rear of them) end, which lead in from Granville are nine large bedrooms and a com- to handle baggage. This lobby forms Circuit and the side lane off Chatham bined bed/sitting-room on each floor a hallway to the ground-floor restau- Road. Large folding doors can be in the Chatham Road wing and rant, so that diners entering do not opened to connect it with the lounge, twenty-five smaller bedrooms arranged disturb guests in the lounge.

which has itself 2,356 square feet of on both sides of the Cameron Road

main entrance

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wing. Each bedroom has its own bathroom, built-in wardrobe space, and air-conditioning unit.

These air-conditioners work on the fan-and-coil system, with the coolant pumped throughout the building from the main plant in the basement. In the individual units, which are of a size adequate to the particular room, the degree of cold required is control- led by varying the speed of the fan which blows air over the cooling coil inside.

The fifteenth floor has private suites, with a magnificent view of the harbour and surroundings, which is, of course,

general from the upper floors of this tall building.

The roof will have both its tank and lift machinery enclosed to provide a good silhouette.

Contracts so far allocated are:

General Contractors: Kin Yick

Construction Company. Water-proofing:

Ltd.

Dreyer & Co..

Schindler Lifts: Jardine Engineering

Corporation, Ltd.

ARTISTIC WORKS

RAOUL BIGAZZI

UNION BUILDING

MARBLES

MOSAICS

ORNAMENTAL TERRAZZO TILES

STAINED GLASS

TELEPHONE: 25177

BRONZES

WROUGHT IRON

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