No_6_October_-_November_-_December__1958 — Page 52

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BUILDING

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(Above) The ground floor plan and a

The single rooms are spacious and ling at 200 feet per minute and stop- beautifully furnished, with different ping at all floors; these lifts are fitted colour schemes. The double rooms with Duplex Collective Selective Con- are twin-bedded with furniture design- trol for operating with or without ed for comfort and style. The suites attendants. There is also a similar comprise a bedroom with twin beds, sized "Schindler" lift for service use. and a most attractive sitting room.

The tenth floor contains five suites de luxe; these have been luxuriously decorated and furnished in various

travelling at 120 feet per minute, and having Down Collective Control for operation without an attendant.

The hotel is air-conditioned through- ancient and modern styles the out by two "York" air-conditioning elegant "Dynasty" and "Mandarin" plants, one of 40 h.p. for the restau suites in the style of old China, the rant, and the second of 130 h.p. for "Louis XV" suite containing the the hotel proper; both of these units typical floor plan. In the original plan, lavish furnishings of that period, and use evaporative condensers. no exits to the corridor on the ground floor the "Modern" and "Honeymoon" Gas is laid on and the equipment were designed for the shops on Carnarvon suites commanding a beautiful view served comprises water heaters and Road. For the convenience of hotel guests, of the harbour. entrances to the shops were opened from

complete kitchen equipment, including the corridor by the management of the

cookers, boilers and grillers. shops. (Top Right) Photograph of the restaurant and night club. (Below) Views of the grill and the bar.

The lift installation consists of two "'Schindler"

Cost of the completed building was with a capacity of 1200 lbs and travel- about $2,000,000, but central aircon-

8-passenger lifts, each

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