MIRADOR MANSION
NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON
ARCHITECTS: HARRIMAN REALTY CO., LTD.
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Architects' impression of the completed building.
A considerable amount of con- It is only the use of escalators struction in Hongkong today owes which has made possible the multi- its being to the fact that the storey shopping premises in buildings. w promoters can sell portions of the The ease with which customers pass One from one floor to the other and the building to prospective tenants.
which
HOUSE
MANSON
HUMPHREYS
AVENUE
MIRADOR
MANSION
CARNARVON
MODY
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NATHAN
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of the largest buildings of a combined novelty of using escalators which domestic and commercial type to in- draws the great number of people the building, encourages the clude shops and apartments to be into the building, erected on this basis will be the planning of shops on several floors, whereas formerly it would have been Mirador Mansion. It will occupy a unthinkable to have had them on any whole city block fronting on Nathan except the ground floor. Road and bounded by Carnarvon except the ground floor.
The tremendous difference Road, Mody Road and Bristol Avenue. This means that one full city mic development of any project today the escalator is making in the econo- block will be devoted entirely to a so- called co-operative building in which this particular building, 61 shop pre- can be gleaned from the fact that in every tenant will own his own shop mises will be situated on the ground or apartment.
floor, while an additional 71 shops. The site area is approximately will be situated on each of the first 40,000 square feet. The length of the and second floors, making a total of frontage on Nathan Road being just over two hundred shops in one about 200 feet long and the depth of building where only sixty would have the building, one from each of the a similar dimension. The project will been previously considered. Since the streets which it fronts. These be a 16-storey one and the ground rental or sales value per square foot entrances floor, first and second floors, i.e., the of shop space is far higher than that of arcades which being interconnected, lower three floors of the building will office or apartment space, the value of will provide easy circulation for crowds be entirely devoted to shops, follow the escalator in increasing the shopping passing from one part of the building ing the present day trend in Hongkong. area can very readily be appreciated. to the other.
Block plan showing location on Nathan
Road.
There will be four entrances into
on
will lead to the wide
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