No_9_September_1968 — Page 13

Harilelas. Drawings for this project

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in the hands of Wong, Ng, Ouyang and Associates.

Plans for yet another hotel giant in Hong Kong were revealed late last month by Mr. C.W. Young, managing director of Melbourne Enterprise Ltd. A HK$30 million, 27-storey hotel with 320 rooms is to be erected on the site of the former Lok Hing Build- ing in Queen's Road, Central District. It is expected to be completed by 1970. Architects are Lee, Leung & Tsang.

Hilton link

In Singapore more than 3,500 hotel rooms will be provided by schemes now under way to meet the advent of the jumbo jet,

By November 1969 a 26-storey podium and tower structure of rein- forced concrete at Orchard Road will form a further link in the Hilton chain. BEP Akitek have designed the building, which is being constructed for Far Eastern Hotels Development Ltd.

It will have 450 rooms, a banquet and convention hall, restaurants, roof- top pool, basement car parking and ground and first floor commercial rooms. The structural consultants are Steen, Sehested and Partners, the quantity surveyors Frank & Vargeson, and the mechanical engineers Dr. H.C. Huang & Partners in collaboration with Jaros, Baum & Bolles, New York.

BEP Akitek are also preparing plans for a 350-room, 16-storey Hil- ton in the centre of Kuala Lumpur. On both these schemes the interior de- sign is by Pacific House (Asia) Ltd., whose current commissions include the S$20 million Hotel International being erected at Scott's Road, a S$30 million hotel at North Bridge Road, Singapore, and the $$13 million Singa- pore Plantation.

The 24-storey International, with 682 rooms including four presidential units and 100 suites, will be ready in late 1970. It features banquet halls, bowling

basement centre, two parks and one at third floor for over 300 cars. Architects are S.K. Chan and Associates.

car

Planning for the North Bridge Road hotel will be completed this year by American architect, Mr. Minoru Yamasaki, who is working in collaboration with local architects, Palmer and Turner. The developers, Consolidated Enterprises Ltd., expect the building to be ready for occupa- tion by 1970.

Mr. Peter Wimberly, another Am- erican architect, is designing the Singa- pore Plantation, whose 350 rooms in single-storey blocks will be spread over 11 acres along Dalvey Road, near the University of Singapore. The developers, Town and City Properties Ltd., have stated that they will spend $$45 million in the next two years on hotel projects in the republic.

Another of their schemes is the S$17.5 million Ming Court Hotel due for completion in September next year. It will have 350 rooms and in- ternal four-level gardens. Architects are Kumpulan Architect.

A S$10 million conversion of an existing building is in progress at Jalan Rumbia for Imperial Hotel Ltd. Billings Leong and Rex Koh have pre- pared the plans for 480 rooms. In- terior design is again by Pacific House (Asia) Ltd.

Octagonal block

new

Of the hotels currently under construction in Bangkok to pro- vide the city with a further 2,000 first class rooms, the most ambitious project is the Du- sitthanee. This is due to open in mid-1969 and con- sists of a 23-storey tower of an octa- gonal shape on plan. The reinforc- ed concrete frame- work surrounds a central services core, slipformed by Concrete Silos Pty. Ltd.

Riviera, Manila

The accommodation will include 507 guest rooms, a banquet room for more than 850, six restaurants, three lounges, pool, garage, shopping ar- cades, and 17,000 sq. metres of office space in a separate multi-storey block.

The Dusitthanee will be managed by a Japanese syndicate and is design- ed by Tokyo architect, Mr. Yozo Shibata of Kanko Kikeku Sekkeisha. The general contractors are

Oh- bayashi-Gumi Ltd. Construction costs are put at about US$2.5 million.

The rivals

In Manila, the hotel construction boom is at its height. Architects for the new Sheraton and Hilton Hotels (pages 19 and 39) are both con- cerned in rival ventures which have reached the framework stage and will accept bookings next year.

Mr. Leandro V. Locsin has design- ed the P32 million Hotel Inter-Con- tinental on Ayala Avenue a 14- storey structure with 420 guest rooms, while Mr. C.D. Arguelles is respon- sible for the 400-room, 19-storey Hotel Riviera on Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City.

Dusitthanee, Bangkok

Ming Court, Singapore

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Far East BUILDER, September 1968.