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TIT

FUNG HOUSE

CONNAUGHT ROAD, C.

ARCHITECTS:

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#718

HARRIMAN REALTY CO., LTD.

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16

24 FT.

SCALE:

TRANSFORM ROOM

LAV. LAV

f

SHOP

AIR- CONDITION –

ING MACHINE

ROOM

LIFT LOBBY

LOBBY

LIFTS

In the older sections of Hong Kong, to face the main elevation, light grey city blocks are laid out in a series of in colour to the vertical and horizon- very narrow frontages, the width tal lines and the frame around the being traditionally based upon the building, and with mottled effects to length of the China fir pole which the window panels. The entrance hall span the floors of buildings. These is faced with a bold pattern of terrazzo. buildings are being demolished to make way for modern structures and, The ground floor plan of the build- even when two or three of these lots ing shows the position of the lifts and are combined into one, the result is staircase halls on the west side. On still a narrow building.

the upper floors, the lavatories and It is interesting to compare the washrooms are placed between the designs of various architects in over- lifts and the rear stair hall, with a coming the limitations imposed by the corridor connecting the two stairways dimensions, and in this issue the and the lifts which provide access to comparison between the design of the offices. These, of course, are all Commercial House on Queen's Road on the east and north sides of the and Fung House on Connaught Road, building and subdivided in sizes to makes an interesting study.

Fung House is built on a site which. covers an area of 4,580 square feet, with a frontage of 45'-0" and is twelve storeys high.

conform to the tenants requirements.

The building is centrally air-condi- tioned, the machinery for which is on the ground floor as shown.

Two 500 FPM Gearless passenger Here again, the emphasis on the elevators with a capacity of 17 design of the main facade has been on horizontal lines which help to balance serving from the ground floor to the passengers each have been provided the proportions between width and 10th floor with a total rise of 97 ft. height, but in this case the overall The elevators stop one floor below the effect has been obtained by the use of

the architects and owners square panels between windows which wished to design the building in such

top, as are set between fairly thin projecting a way that there was no obvious pent- vertical fins and the heavier lines of house above the top of the structure. In this way the special design of the Mosaic tiles have been largely used building is maintained.

cills and lintels.

F

ENTRANCE SHOP

General Contractors: Construction Co. "Franki" Piling:

SHOP

ENT. OFFICE

Nan Wah

Hong Kong Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd.

Sanitary Installation: Dodwell &

Co., Ltd.

Electrical Work, Gr. 1st & 2nd Fls:

Jardine Engineering Corp., Ltd. "Kentile" Rubber Floors to Gr. Fl:

Davie, Boag & Co., Ltd. "Worthington" Central Air-Condi- tioning: Yee On Hong Co., Ltd. "Crittall Windows: Dodwell &

Co., Ltd.

"Saivo" Vitreous Mosaic Supplies: Demig Trading Co. (F.E.) Ltd. "Schlage" Locks: Shewan, Tomes

& Co., Ltd. Lifts:

Otis Elevator Co.

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