No_5_1956 — Page 17

HONG KONG SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS

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Photographs of two of the panels displayed at the Exhibition.

During the week of May 6th to May 11th, 1957, by arrangement with the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Hong Kong Society of Architects presented an Archi- tectural Exhibition called "Home and Surroundings". The Exhibition was held in the showrooms of the British General Electric Co., Ltd. at Alexandra House, and was visited by a large number of people.

The Exhibition dealt with the important subject of housing in England and showed, by means of photographs and drawings, the architects' contribution to the particular problems of siting, layout and landscaping at different densities.

There were thirty panels or screens. The first six contained a brief historical introduction, and illustrated the architect's relationship to his clients and how his

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skill is used to meet their special requirements.

Panels 7-11 illustrated closely built areas in a city centre where there were 200 people to the acre, yet housed in pleasantly grouped high flats, maisonettes and houses.

Panels 12-15 showed the redevelopment, at a density of 100 people to the acre, of a bombed site which was formerly an old and crowded residential area.

Panels 16-21 illustrated a comparatively open deve- lopment of 53 people to the acre.

Panels 22-25 were of small and widespread groups of houses for a whole rural area.

Panels 26-30 illustrated the contribution the architect has made towards maintaining local characteristics in new work.