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S$1 million shopping complex
A three-level shopping complex and shops with living quarters are among the principal features of a S$1 million 18-storey building which the Singa- pore Housing and Development Board is building on a site opposite its 20-storey Selegie Flats.
This block, an urban renewal project, will be mainly a commercial building with no flats. When completed in August next year, it will have a tower block of 90 offices above the shopping complex or emporium.
The three-level emporium will occupy the lower floors of the building, and above the shops will be a restaurant. Two lock-up shops and 14 shops with quarters complete the facilities in the building.
New police headquarters for Hong Kong
Tenders will be called later this year for the superstructure of the new Hong Kong Police Head- quarters building in Arsenal Street, between the existing Headquarters and Married Quarters in Hennessy Road. The basement is already being constructed by Messrs. Dickson Construction Co. after having been piled by Vibro Ltd.
The building, originally designed in 1964/5, will consist of a 21-storey tower block 97 ft. by 83 ft. rising above a two-storey podium covering most of the site. The tower block has a central core of lifts, staircases and toilets with offices of varying sizes around the perimeter.
The corners of the tower block are splayed for the positioning of aerial brackets on each floor and
to provide a vertical duct for services. Ducts run- ning external to the columns distribute the services horizontally, and provide sunshading walkways for window cleaning and maintenance.
D. V. Tonge of the Architectural Office, Public Work Department is the architect.
Master plan for new Rangsit campus approved
The Board of Trustees of the Asian Institute of Technology announced the approval of the master plan for the development of its new 400- acre campus at Rangsit at the conclusion of its recent two-day meeting. The acceptance of the de- signs of the first phase of the overall building pro- gramme as presented by the firm of Robert Mathew, Johnson-Marshall & partners, Architects, in consortium with Scott Wilson, Kirkpatrick and Partners, Civil Engineers, will now allow construc- tion on the new campus to begin in January 1970.
In keeping with its continuing policy to im- prove academic standards, AIT's Trustees also ap- proved a doctoral programme which will be made available to condidates holding the Master of En- gineering degree beginning with the 1970-71 aca- demic year.
With 87 per cent of AIT graduates located in Asia today, this new academic option will further strengthen the Institute's effort to reverse the so- called 'brain drain' in the field of technology.
Hitachi Pavilion for Expo '70
Construction of the Hitachi Pavilion at the 1970 world exposition site in Osaka will soon enter its final stage with the framework of the 22- metre high cylindrical structure. All work is going well on the futuristic pavilion which will feature air travel simulation under the main theme 'Search: Invitation to the Unknown.'
The construction work is under way with a joint partnership of Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Cable, Ltd., Hitachi Metals, Ltd., Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. and Shin Meiwa Industry Co., Ltd. The pavi- lion is designed to look like a huge flying saucer hovering low over Senri Hills where the first world
New Hong Kong Police Headquarters building
The Hitachi Pavilion
Far East BUILDER, August 1969
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