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Main entrance to the restaurant. The facade is covered in rough-hewn stone

garden leads through stone columns into the dining area where the Egyp- tian motif is further stressed by the use of adobe walls with etchings in bas relief and carved wooden over- hanging buttresses. A curving handrail, which serves also as a halter, divides the split-level dining

area.

Ceiling pin lights illuminate the core of the dining hall and are aug- mented by hanging lamps suspended above above the circular parquet- floored dance space.

The dance space is adjoined by a retractable stage, behind which are store rooms and the machine room. A central air-conditioning system feeds cool air through ducts to the dining room,

Sub-contractors for the building included: Atlantic Gulf and Pacific Co.

timber and plywood: plastic wall decor: and Amon Trading Corp.

Berenguer-Topacio

virtrified tiles.

Side gallery above the level of the main dining floor is broken into com- partments for small private gatherings

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Far East BUILDER, May 1968.