No_6_October_-_November_-_December__1958 — Page 55

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CORONET COURT

Architects: M. A. Xavier, B. Sc., and S. F. Lew.

Coronet Court, a block of apart- ing a good deal of the old area that arcade, the entrances to which are off ments recently erected at the corner used to be the front part of the Luna

Park. Since Mr. Gray's death, how. ever, these development plans have been substantially altered.

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of King's Road and North Point Road, is one of the projects which the late Charles Gray planned and started a short time before his death, and is The building has shops on part of a scheme which he had in ground and mezzanine floors, with mind for this whole block, starting thirteen floors of apartments above. from the Empire Theatre and embrac- The shops are placed about a central

the two sides of the building on North Point Road and Yuet Yuen Street. These entrances also contain the stair- ways to the apartments on the upper floors, but the lifts to these floors are placed near the centre of the build- ing so that passages leading to the entrances of the apartments are not too long.

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(Left) Mezzanine floor shop arcade, and (above) Typical apartment floor plan.

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