No_7_July_1968 — Page 3

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Cover:

Ten -storey administrative building of the Malaysian Broadcasting Centre which overlooks the Pantai Valley, The centre, largest of its kind in South East Asia, is described on page 17.

Builder

A. G. Barnett, editor

Contents

News Review

JULY 1968

Big response to HK Pavilion design competition

9

150 years of building in Singapore

9

120ft. main span in Singapore flyover

10

Third stage of police school project

at Aberdeen

10

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Crash programme for low-cost housing

in West Malaysia

11

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Work starts on HK$3.5 million flyover

World News

11

13

Design

Founded 1935 and published monthly by

Far East Trade Press Ltd.,

1908 Prince's Building, Hong Kong. Telephone: 241031

Cables: FETRAP

Printed by Shum Shing Printing Co., Hong Kong

Malaysian Broadcasting Centre. Kei Chi Middle School, Hong Kong

New structural forms in Government

building design, Philippines. F. S. llustre and R. A. Mallonga

Business

17

27

32

INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES

MALAYSIA/SINGAPORE

Asia Magazines Ltd., 2nd Fl., International Bdg, Orchard Road, Singapore 9

JAPAN

International Business Press Ass., Seika Bdg, 7-16, 4-chome, Akasaka, Minato-Ku, Tokyo UNITED KINGDOM

Iliffe-NTP Overseas Ltd., 161/166 Fleet Street, London EC4 UNITED STATES

Cahners Publishing Co. Inc., 5 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Ill. 60603

AUSTRALIA

Mr. C. Ryman, The Australian, GPO Box 4342, Sydney, NSW FRANCE

Compagnie Francaise d'Editions, 40 Rue du Colisee, Paris 8

SWEDEN

Inter-Avis AB, Box 3322, 103 66 Stockholm 3

ITALY

Etas Kompass, Via Mantegna 6, Milan GERMANY

Kontinenta Anzeigen-Verwaltung, Grafenberger Allee 271,

4 Dusseldorf

SWITZERLAND

Agentur Iff, Webergasse 43, 8201 Schaffhausen

Controlled circulation to 8,000 qualified readers

Far East BUILDER, July 1968.

Hong Kong Housing

private enterprise Hugh Lim

the outlook for

35

Civil Engineering

Toa Payoh sewage purification scheme,

Singapore

38

New Products

Materials and equipment

45

Contractors' plant

49

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New Projects

Building plans approved Contracts awarded

Index to advertisers

88

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