No_5_July_-_August_-_September__1958 — Page 17

TWO NEW MAY ROAD APARTMENTS

Architect: Eric Cumine, F. R. I. B. A. A. A. Dip.

The Humphreys Estate & Finance eral development of this exclusive once were). On the lower western part Co., Ltd. is building two new blocks area.

the May Road school is under con- During the Occupation the Jap- struction and another apartment

of high-class residential flats close to

each other amid pleasant surround- anese pulled down the old Chartered building, "Friston", is being built ings overlooking May Road.

Bank House and after the war Hum- next to the Consul's house. As will be seen from the accom- phreys purchased the site upon which

Sketch plans for these two new panying illustration, in which scale it formerly stood. In 1955 the Coin- blocks of flats were first prepared in perspective of these apartments-to- pany also bought the lot adjoining January, 1956. The first scheme be have been cleverly superimposed the French Consul's residence.

provided for the erection of eight upon an interesting photograph of the An approach road is now being flats on the eastern side (where locality, this Company is continuing built and the apartment house "Bal- "Friston" is to be situated), a pri- its wellknown policy of so planning macara" is in the course of erection mary school for 400 pupils on the up- and designing new buildings that they on the upper portion of the site per part of the site, and a larger blend most attractively into the gen- (where the Bank House tennis courts block of sixteen flats on the lower

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western end facing in the direction of Stonecutters' Island. Access was to have been by way of a new road from Peak Road above the entrance Queen's Gardens, with a flyover con- necting to the lower apartment. Later, however, it was decided that the school would be better placed at the lower end of the site and that the two apart- ment blocks should occupy the high- er end. Their height was restricted to avoid obstructing the view from the flats on the upper end of Peak Road.

Five different schemes were con- sidered for the access roads before the final one was decided on. This is now to be by an approach bridge from