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TSUNG TSIN MISSION SCHOOL

Architect: Iu Po Chiu

田田

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FUTURE

ROAD

FUTURE ROAD

NEW SCHOOL -BUILDING

EXISTING

CHAPELY

147 S.L.SQ

S.L.5 7

MAIN STREET

SCALE:

Site Plan

PATH

POLICE

Architect's perspective drawing of the new building.

STATION

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ISOFT

Shaukiwan Tsung Tsin Church of the ground on the ground floor, there will Tsung Tsin Mission, Hong Kong. In be the headmasters' rooms and office, this case, it is planned to demolish an two rooms for the teaching staff, and old 2-storey school building and a separate lavatories for the teachers number of dilapidated structures ad- and the pupils. jacent to it to make way for an entirely new school building along

most modern lines.

On the 1st floor, there will be six classrooms with the boys' lavatories; on the second floor, five classrooms, a The location of the school will be library, and the girls' lavatories; and alongside the existing church, which on the third floor, four classrooms, a will not be affected by the planning laboratory complete with store, which of the new building.

will take the space of two classrooms, The present school was established and additional lavatory accommoda- in 1948 to educate 364 pupils in eight tion. classrooms. Since 1956, the school The penthouse quarters will consist has been receiving subsidies from of a living room, a bedroom with a Government.

small dressing room leading off the bathroom, and two separate kitchens, one for the use of the servants them-

new

The education of the younger chil-

It is now planned to erect a five- dren, who are reaching school age in storey building which will have, in much larger numbers than the present addition to the classrooms, a covered selves. school accommodation can take care playground on the ground floor and The estimated cost of the of, has been the concern not only of an open-air playground on the roof building is $400,000 of which a loan of Government but of various welfare with living quarters for a church $195,000 has already been approved and church bodies. One project to official incorporated in a penthouse by the Hong Kong Government, but enlarge existing facilities is being besides the open-air recreational area. a further loan is being sought through planned by the Committee of the In addition to the covered play- the Education Department.

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