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The first floor of the Bank premises.
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The entrance to the safe deposit section.
and lavatories are all grouped to- are faced with Belgian Black marble. gether along the south wall of the The rest of the building has a 4' 0" building: the secondary staircase high plinth with granite slab facing, with its lobby and an air-condition- above which is 24' 0" of wall finished ing room are located in the north- in granite plaster, inset with mosaic east corner of the building. This finish strips, and finally plain granite leaves the remainder of each floor plaster to the roof parapet. available for office space, but usually (except where one and the same company is occupying an entire floor) a corridor will be provided ap- proximately down the centre of the building connecting the two lobbies. Over 3000 square feet is devoted to office space on each floor.
Construction is of conventional reinforced concrete frame with hol- low tile floor slabs and rib beams.
Metal doors and windows are fitted throughout the building. Internal walls are mostly finished in plaster. In the banking hall, the walls have a precast terrazzo dado, the four main The elevations are simple and very internal columns are lined with conservative in the usual banking Belgian Black marble, and the coun- tradition; most of the decorative ters are of metal with white bronze treatment is concentrated around the grilles and plate glass vision panels. Bank entrance, the main feature of Cove lighting along the sides of the which is a centre doorway provided ceiling beams provides the general with revolving doors of the automatic illumination, supplemented by indivi- collapsible panic type, the four revol- dual recessed lighting fixtures at- ving leaves of which are supported tached to the counter grilles; most on a central reinforced column. of the lighting fittings are of "Atlas" Under panic conditions, irrespective manufacture supplied by The Jar- of their position at the time, the four leaves fold away from the pressure point to leave a clear opening. The four leaves can be manually operated to fold in the centre to give two clear passages or fold to one side to give one wide clear passage. In the cir- cular side enclosures of these doors are housed sliding doors to enable the entrance to be closed up secure- ly from the front.
dine Engineering Corporation, Ltd. An interesting feature of the banking hall is the fact that there are no transverse beams across the hall, all beams running longitudinally from the front to the back of the building. This apparently minor consideration makes а lot of difference to the internal appearance of the Bank and gives an impression of increased depth to the restricted area.
On each side of the revolving doors The floors of the working space and are swing doors with cast bronze the manager's office of the Bank are grilles on the outside. All the doors of "Lintile" linoleum tiles; those of are finished in bronze with a bronze the public space and the lobbies are frame, fascia and soffit, which last of precast terrazzo tiles. The offices has a lighting unit set in its centre. on the upper storeys as well as the corridors and main lobby have floors On each side of the main entrance of asphalt tiles; lavatories and ser- are bronze windows with cast bronze vice rooms have mosaic floors and grilles on the outside face. Above skirtings with white glazed tile the entrance doors and side windows dadoes. are three windows similar in design to the lower side windows but with- out the grilles: all of these are framed in bronze and above them is bronze lettering in English and Chinese.
All wall and column surfaces which comprise the main entrance design
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The wiring installation was carried out by The China Engineers, Ltd., using Johnson & Phillips C.M.A. grade cables. Stella galvanized elec- trical conduits. Dennis iron-clad switches, George Ellison main oil circuitbreaker, and Falks accessories. All the wiring for the Bank and for
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the other offices is concealed in con- duits. The electrical load is made up as follows: approximately 585 light- ing points, about 110 general power points, 30 h.p. for the lifts. 30 h.p. for the pumps. and 230 h.p. for the air-conditioning.
Architects: Turner
Messrs. Palmer &
General Contractor:
struction Co.
Franki Piling: gineering & Ltd.
Paul Y. Con-
Hong Kong En- Construction
Electrical Installation:
Engineers. Ltd.
Co.,
The China
Plumbing: Dodwell & Co., Ltd.
Waterproofing: William Jacks &
Co., Ltd.
Crittall Metal Windows: Dodwell
& Co., Ltd.
York Air-Conditioning: The Jar-
dine Engineering Corpn. Ltd.
Otis Elevators: Dodwell & Co., Ltd.
Bronze Work (for Bank entrance):
Fredk. Sage & Co., Ltd. (Harry Wicking & Co., Ltd.)
Bronze Work (internal): Shing Fat Precast Terrazzo & Marble Work: Vannini Construction Co., Ltd.
Accotile Floor Tiles: Getz Bros. &
Company.
The
Corbin Hardware: John D. Hut-
chison & Co., Ltd.
"Atlas" Fluorescent Lighting:
Jardine Engineering Corpn. Ltd.
Chubb Safe-Deposit Lockers: The Jardine Engineering Corpn., Ltd.
All photographs in this article were
taken by Mr. Roy Tsang of 139 Johnston Road, and are reproduced
by permission.
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