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KITCHEN

SCAVENGING

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MAN ENTRANCE

FOOTPATH

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BAT STREET

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LIFT LORET

BALI

LOUNGI

FOBIUM

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(Left Top) Typical Guest Room Floor Plan

(Left Centre) First Floor Plan

(Left Bottom) Ground Floor Plan

(Above) Longitudinal Section A-A through the building

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not only adds dignity to the design, the dining room will be converted to required on the upper floors and load but reduces the height between the a night club in the evenings.

bearing walls, eliminating columns, basement and street levels to provide

One hundred persons can be accom-

are ideal from the standpoint of wind easier access for cars to the under modated in the ground floor cocktail

load resistance. ground parking area. Another factor lounge, adjacent to which will be two influencing this aspect of the design, private dining rooms seating 40 per and making a full basement inappro- sons; the latter can be opened up to priate, was the level of the water provide additional lounge space table, which is only about eight feet can be used for meetings and press below ground level.

conferences.

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of this will be clad with gold mosaic, which will emphasize the general rich- ness in detail of this striking addition to the Colony's amenities.

Aesthetically, the expression of the cellular nature of the tower floors on the exterior will be both pleasing to the eye and reflective of the planning behind the curtain wall. This block will rest on a grid of girders supported The lower ground floor will occupy

by columns down to the foundation. Twelve guest room floors will con- the entire site, with its floor about tain 240 double bedrooms with at-

A dominating reinforced concrete seven feet below ground level. Ac- tached bathrooms. Some of the rooms canopy will separate the lower floors commodation will be provided for 22 will be interconnected to provide a from the tower block; the underside cars, store rooms and various other flexible arrangement of two and three service facilities. Cars will approach room suites. the parking area by means of two

Reinforced concrete portal frame ramps lying along the back of the construction has been adopted for the site with entrances from both side lower three floors. The upper twelve

The entire building will be fully air- floors of the hotel, containing the conditioned. Each guest room will In the accompanying drawings, the guest rooms, will be of six inch thick be served by a Fan-Coil Unit with layout of the ground and first floors reinforced concrete diaphragm con- chilled or hot water supplied from a can be clearly seen.

A three-speed switch The main struction; this constructional systein central plant. feature of the ground floor will be the ensures a clear section through every will be provided in each room to be long lounge, while the first floor will bedroom and no unsightly beams or operated by the occupant. be almost entirelty occupied by a columns will be visible; it also sim- Plumbing, air-conditioning dining room, which can

seat 300 plifies the problem of interior decora- other pipes will be grouped together guests, and its large adjoining kitchen; tion. Flexibility in planning was not in ducts between adjoining bathrooms.

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