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Our impression of the new project drawn from the building plans.

The problem of keeping pace with less money, and has left only the room ones. The buildings will be the need for providing sufficient ac- problem of adapting specific layouts eleven storeys in height with a ground commodation for Government officers to the exigencies of each particular floor for the entrance ways in the is one which continuously exercises site, as and when it is chosen. the minds of the responsible authori-

ties. There never was enough accom- One rather interesting site is now modation to begin with, and this being developed at the corner of ever-growing Colony, requiring addi- Waterloo Road and Argyle Street, on tlonal personnel for every Government which two eleven-storey department, is making increasing de- will shortly be erected. mands on all available accommoda- tion.

centre, children's play section ex- tending along the front and a car port along the back under the build- ings themselves. In addition to these. there will be a car port at the back of buildings the site to take the rest of the cars. The ten upper floors of each building will contain twenty flats making a total of forty apartments in all

The shape and arrangement of the blocks will generally follow the front The decision to standardize certain portion of the new Leighton Hill In a previous number of the "Build-

when types of flats in new construction buildings, but the types of flats will er",

described the work has made it possible to provide be similar to those at Chater Hall Chater Hall and Leighton Hill Flats. more and better accommodation for since all the flats will be three bed- we stated:

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Site plan showing position of the two buildings on the formed area.

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"The principle of construction, as prepared by the Architectural Office of the Public Works Department, will follow those of the Government quarters already erected, in that the the main bearing walls will be of re- inforced concrete, with the exterior walls of 9" brickwork and interior partitions of 3" hollow blocks.

"The Architectural Office have found that the use of bearing walls in this type of building not only speeds up construction but, owing to the elimination of beams and col- umns, it is possible for the contrac- tor to prefabricate the formwork in large panels, and re-use the panels on succeeding floors. This results in considerable savings on the cost of formwork.

"A study of the lay-out of this project will disclose how much thought and careful planning has gone into the design of these build-

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