award which "recognises architects of esteemed charac- ter and distinguished achievement who are not residents of the United States and do not practice within the domain of the Institute”.
Mr. Su is aged 62. His Hong Kong projects in- clude the Ambassador Hotel, Wing On Bank Build- ing, Mongkok Police Station, New Asia College and the Hong Kong Funeral Home.
Australian is new president of IFAWPCA
MR. HENRY WILCKENS of Australia was elected
1968/69 president of IFAWPCA (International
Federation of Asian and Western Pacific Contractors Associations) at the associations' eighth annual conven- tion held recently in Manila. He succeeds Mr. Eduardo R. Escobar of the Philippines who becomes vice president.
Other officers elected were: Domingo Poblete (Philippines) honorary president; Phra Prakork Yan- trikech (Thailand) vice president; and Brian P. Grove (Australia) secretary general.
The new board comprises: Robert O'Neill (Aust.); Glyn T.H. Ing (Taiwan); Geoffrey M.T. Yeh (HK); Rajendra J. Shah (India); Matabe Maeda (Japan); Jung Koo Cho (Korea); Lim Chong Hin
(Malaysia); Royce D. Baigant (NZ); Felipe F. Cruz (Philippines); Toh Seng Sit (Singapore); Chan Arkas- rerks (Thailand); and Tran-Quoi-Thien (Vietnam).
The convention agreed to further moves towards the establishment of a World Federation of Contrac- tors. The committee of IFAWPCA is to draft a let- ter to the three world organisations embodying sugges- IFAWPCA ex- tions on co-operation in the future. ecutives will meet representatives of the international bodies on construction in Geneva later this year.
The ninth annual meeting of IFAWPCA will be held in Adelaide next year.
Homes for 17,500 at Chai Wan
GOVERNMENT-built homes for more than 17,500 people are to be provided at Chai Wan on Hong Kong Island. Three 16-storey blocks will be erected adjacent to the existing Chai Wan resettlement estate at a cost of HK$9 million. Construction will begin in June and be finished in two years.
The three blocks will contain 3,000 self-contained homes, two 24-classroom schools for children and two restaurants. Each flat will have its own private balcony and toilet. When fully developed the area will include three playgrounds, a rest garden, cinema, community centre, hawker market and car park.
Toshiba-IHI pavilion at Expo will be 300-ton globe
A US$5.5 MILLION pavilion of 6,400 sq. metres to be built jointly for Expo '70 by Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co. Ltd. (Toshiba) and Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. (IHI) of Japan, will feature "Global Vision", a huge 300-ton globe suspended from a six-legged tetra-steel space frame structure. The theme of the pavilion will be "Light Hope for Man".
Global Vision will have an outside diameter of 40 metres (131 ft). A 60-metre (197 ft) tetra-steel structure will tower over the pavilion area on one side of the space-frame, with the latter's highest point 28.5 metres (94 ft.) above the highest ground level.
The pavilion site will consist of four visitor levels, three above ground and one below ground. The third and highest level will be taken up by Global Vision. Visitors will enter a 500-seat rotating circular theatre on the second level of the pavilion. They will be
lifted 5.5 metres (18 ft.) to the third level of the pavilion inside Global Vision for a 15-minute film presentation on the "Light Hope For Man" theme three times each hour.
The interior of Global Vision consists of a nine- screen panorama with a total viewing area of 700 sq. metres. Nine automatically-controlled 35 millimeter cameras will focus on the screens. Viewers will also be treated to 12-channel multi-sound during the 15- minute showing.
The first ground level will include an underground park complete with a pool with running water sur- rounded by 150 spectator benches. The walls of the ground and basement levels will be lined with various displays. A "satellite studio" at the pavilion will fea- ture ultra-modern communications equipment and prototypes for the future. TV telephones will also be demonstrated.
Scale models of the 500-seat rotating-circular mobile theatre (above) and the "Global Vision" pavilion (right)
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