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corner of the building.

The shopping arcades on the first and second floors will eventually be served with escalators.

Despite its height this building is centrally air-conditioned up to and including the twelfth floor. Above this individual units are used by the

tenants.

Contractors & Suppliers

first section:

for the

General Contractors: Paul Y. Con-

struction Co.,

Mr. G. T. Guignard

Interna-

Carrier Air-Conditioning:

tional Engineering, Ltd. Franki Piling: Hong Kong Engineer-

ing & Construction Co., Ltd. Aluminium Shop-Fronts: Hong

Kong Aluminium Ltd. Electrical Installations: Jardine

Engineering Corporation, Ltd. Plumbing & Sanitary Fixtures:

Dodwell & Co., Ltd.

Sloan Naval Flush Valves: Inniss

& Riddle (China) Ltd. Steel Windows; Canton

Window Mfg. Co., Ltd.

A

Metal

A VERSATILE

Fire Fighting Installations: Victory

Manufacturing Co.

Hardware: Shewan, Tomes & Co.,

Ltd.

Saivo Glass Mosaic Facing Tiles:

Demig Trading Co., (Far East) Ltd.

Elevators: Otis Elevator Co. Marble: Raoul Bigazzi.

Rock Asphalt Tanking & Rock Asphalt Roofing: Dreyer & Co., Ltd.

Gas Service points to each floor: The II.K. & China Gas Co., Ltd.

VETERAN

newcomer to the field of interior and economic conditions it was never built. decoration in the Colony is Mr. G. T. Many bungalows and houses in places as Guignard, former well-known resident of widely separated as Singapore and Pei-Tai- Shanghai. He has supplied some interest- Ho were designed by Mr. Guignard. ing details of his past experience in this kind of work. While in the North, he tells us, he was responsible for the decora- tion of several of Shanghai's big night clubs including the Carlton, Sun Sun Ballroom, Casanova and Ciro's, in addition to various hotels, clubs, private residences and apartments.

His versatility led him in other direc- in Shanghai, which were used in hospitals, tions "Modern Look" lampshades made nightclubs, etc., and even to the planning of a very light type of non-upsettable aluminium rickshaw with a very low centre of gravity, small pneumatic wheels, and doors closing like those of a hansom cab.

In the early twenties, he says, he was engaged by the Hongkong & Shanghai Born in London of French and Irish Hotels to supervise construction and design parents, Mr. Guignard was educated at the interior decoration of the new Canton the Engineering College of Versailles in hotel but unfortunately, due to political France.

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TEL. 28041

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