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greater Manila area. The corporation has been granted a franchise to build a monorail system which would encircle the metropolitan zone and enter the busy sections of the city itself. A ground breaking ceremony for the construction of the terminal took place last month.

It is envisaged that the system will use all electric air-conditioned vehicle trains, suspended along an aerial track between high-strength pylons. The tracks will be 18 ft. above ground. Designs for Osaka pavilions released

Taiwan's pavilion for the World Exposition in Osaka, 1970, is now being constructed by the Japanese contractors, Ohbayashi-Gumi Ltd., Chi- yoda-ku, Tokyo.

Resembling a great gate, the pavilion consists of two triangular pillars, 32.85 metres high, linked by a passageway of reinforced glass. The passage- way, which will contain ancient and modern ob- jects of Chinese culture, is meant to represent the flow of Chinese influence to Europe and Japan. symbolised by the two main pillars. The simple exterior of the building is intended to represent the simple structure of Chinese philosophy. Floor area of the building will be 2.000 sq. metres on a site area of 4,150 sq. metres.

Yin-Hsuan Pen and Chu-Yuan Lee are the architects.

News of other pavilions now under way on the Osaka site has recently been released by the ex- position authorities. The Scandinavian pavilion, to be built jointly by five Scandinavian countries. Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, will be a single-storey building with one basement floor. Of simple structural steel construction, it will be 8.5 metres high.

Designed by Danish architect, Bent Serverin, the pavilion will have a plain but impressive facade covered in synthetic resins and metal panels which will be iluminated by floodlights set on the ground and walls. Half the building will, which will cost 600 million yen, be occupied by a restaurant to seat 600.

Some 1,000 million yen will be spent on the American Park. This will consist of four areas with a total on nine single and two-storey steel-framed buildings and two plazas.

The area, covering 9,600 sq. metres, will be divided into three sections one for displays by states and cities, one for private firms, and the third for restaurants, snack bars and fashion shows.

Japanese folk crafts will be presented in a trian- gular-shaped two-storey museum which covers the whole of its site of 3,070 sq. metres. Surrounding a 600-sq. metre courtyard, it will have four exhibi- tion rooms connected by corridors.

For the Hong Kong pavilion, contracts have

Taiwan pavilion's dual towers

Scandinavian pavilion will have metal cladding

American Park covers 9,600 sq. metres

Triangular museum for Japanese folk crafts

Far East BUILDER, July 1969

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