NEW APARTMENTS ON VENTRIS ROAD Architect: lu Po Chiu, B. Sc.
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Two views of the new buildings, photographed from the model.
Ventris Road is a short length of tinuous roof line over the two build- introduced to emphasize the various thoroughfare running between Blue ings. Seen from the front, therefore, architectural elements, and on the Pool Road and Broadwood Road, par- the height of the combined buildings main facade black and white will do- allel with the eastern part of Wong- is much better proportioned and pro- minate as black glazed glass slabs neichong Road along the Race Course. vides a far pleasanter aspect than if will be used in the curtain wall pan- It is an ideal residential area, with the two buildings had been kept en- eis in ccntrast with the white metal older type of residences interspersed tirely separate.
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with modern church buildings Several novel features have been dows. Further contrast will be pro- throughout its entire length. It is convenient to the playgrounds at Happy Valley, bus and tram routes to the city, and to Causeway Bay and castwards, and very near to the shop- ping district at Causeway Bay.
It is not surprising therefore that this ideally located street should be earmarked for residential re-develop- ment, and the first of the very mo- dern dwellings which We are sure will be erected here during the next few years, is a seven-storey block of apartments designed by Mr. Iu Po Chiu of the architectural firm of Iu and Co.
The development actually consists of two separate buildings, each with fourteen apartments, two on each floor, but in order to preserve the symmetry of the design and to ba- lance the width of the mass against its height, the architect has joined the front elevation of the buildings by means of concrete screens tween them, and by providing a con-
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