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COMMERCIAL

HOUSE

MODERN OFFICE BLOCK

ON NARROW FRONTAGE

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Architect :-

G. D. Su

SCALE

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SHOP

YARD

LAV.

LOBBY

UP

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1. L.

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LUNG

STREET

IL.

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QUEEN'S

ROAD.

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SCALE

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(Above) Photographic impression

of the new building. (Right) Ground floor plan showing The position of the lobbies, lifts and stairways.

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A new twelve-storeyed office block has just been completed at Queen's Road Central, on a site pre- viously occupied by an old four- storeyed building, the ground floor of which accommodated The Commer- cial Press, Ltd.

The new building, which is now called "Commercial House". is a

H1 U

SH

FOOT PATH

QUEEN'S

ROAD,

C.

M. L. 6 2

decided and very attractive contrast style chosen by the architect for the to the old buildings to the east of it main facade of the building, the aver along Queen's Road, and may well be age width of which is only 35'-0”. a preview of the development expect- The architect has avoided the mistake ed in the central portion of this most of incorporating vertical features into important thoroughfare.

the design, which would have em- The design of the building is phasized the narrowness of the struc- striking because of the appropriate ture. Instead of this, he has broad

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