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GENERAL

OFFICE

OFFICE

OFFICE

OFFICE

OFFICE

GARDEN

ENTRANCE HALL BELOW

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STORE

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EMBANKMENT

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LECTURE

ROOMS

STORE

First Floor Plan

OFFICERS MESS

目

DINING ROOM

ANTEROOM

KIT.

STORE

SVT.

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LAV.

STORE

EXIT

FOYER/CANTEEN

LECTURE

HALL

STORE

[STORE}

The Council Chamber

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Second Floor Plan

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First Floor Lecture Room

In plan the structure is roughly L- floor level of this main block has shaped, with the main block along lecture rooms in the front part and Macdonnell Road. Construction is of large storerooms in the rear. On the reinforced concrete adhering to a floor above the upper ground level single grid, which is expressed both there is a handsome teak-panelled, externally and internally in the main parquet-floored Council Chamber, on block.

one wall of which the carved insignia Trimmed stone has been used to of St. John is prominently displayed. trace the areas between the framing There also another very large of front and side elevations of the lecture-room with french windows main block, the grey colour of the opening onto a wide balcony with a stone and the cement blending well colonnade similar to that at lower together to give a pleasant and har ground level. A storeroom adjoins it, monious appearance to the building and there are more offices and stores The different textures serve also to in the rear block. provide a variety other than that of

On the top floor is the vast audito- the light-and-shade effect produced by rium, occupying nearly the whole the deep-set windows and colonnades. area of the front block. Its foyer and The entrance is from Macdonnell gallery can be closed off for use as Road where a colonnade runs the separate lecture rooms. whole length of the main frontage in is the officers' mess order that people may alight from ante-room and its own kitchen. and enter their vehicles under cover servants' room and some more small in rainy weather. The lower ground stores have also been included.

To the rear which has an

A

General Contractor: Construction Co.

Hsin Heng

Sanitary & Fire Service Installation:

Dodwell & Co., Ltd.

Electrical Installation: The British

General Electric Co., Ltd. Electrical Fittings: The British

General Electric Co., Ltd. Electrical Fittings: The Jardine

Engineering Corporation, Ltd. Foldoor Partitions: Shewan, Tomes

& Co., Ltd

Metal Doors & Windows: Canton Metal Window Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Roofing: Dreyer & Co., Ltd. Hardware: William Jacks & Co.,

Ltd.

Glazed & Mosaic Tiles: Sino-British

(Hongkong) Ltd.

Vinyl Plastic Floor Tiles: Hope &

Co.

Approximate total cost of the build- ing and landscaping was $675,000.00

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