NEW AERATED WATER FACTORY
FOR A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
IN KOWLOON
A view of the very impressive, very attractive building
The new Kowloon Aerated Water factory of A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd., situated on K.I.L. 0006 at the junction of Mak Cheong Street and Sung Wong Toi Road, progress report on which was given in our issue of August/September 1948, has now been completed, and it is from an architectural, as well as a commercial, point of view a model building. The first impressions of the visitor to the building centre around the spotless cleanliness, the brightness, and the spaciousness under which the manufacturing processes are carried out. These impressions are the result of the original planning of the structure in which high ceilings and broad areas spaced by columns at maximum centres are combined with wide conven. tional window and glass brick sections and hard rendered white painted walls.
The building design follows the most modern trends in
industrial architecture and incorporates several features of the "Usonian" style created by the famous American Architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, as, for example, in the use of the new space-saving mushroom columns.
The building has been so designed as to provide a con- tinuous flow of the manufacturing process from the raw material storage rooms on the upper floors to the truck load- ing platform on the ground floor. Thus each step of the process, the treatment of raw sugar, the mixing of the syrups, the purifying of the water, the manufacture and preparation of the carbonate gas, the sterilising of the bottles, and the combining of these various elements into the completed bottles of aerated waters, has been provided with well lighted areas in which every facility has been installed for efficient processing and supervision.
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The main factory area on the ground floor looking towards the bottling machines.
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