Work is scheduled to begin in December on a 26-storey tower office block (right) for American International Assurance Co., Ltd. The site is at 1 Stubbs Road, Hong Kong Island.
Covering an area of 42,467 sq. ft., the building will rise 288 ft. It is estimated to cost HK$16 million,
Architects, Palmer and Turner, have designed 21 storeys above the Stubbs Road level and five floors below that level. Each typical floor in the tower provides 6,000 sq. ft. of office space, free of supporting columns. A new construction method is to be used in which the external walls are constructed of precast reinforced concrete units with post-tensioned diagrid floors.
Thomas, Anderson and Partners are the consulting engineers for the design of the air-conditioning and electrical installations.
The new Bank of Canton building (above) at 6 Des Voeux Road in Central Hong Kong will be clad entirely in granite facing slabs. It will be a steel-framed structure, comprising a podium of ground, mezzanine and first floors, with a rectangular tower from second to 20th floor. There will be two basement levels beneath the podium and a services floor on top of the tower.
Piling for the HK$20 million building has been completed and the general construction contract will be placed in the new year. The podium is due for completion in January 1967 and the whole building in January 1968. The total floor area will be 142,000 sq. ft.
Szeto Wai is the architect. The mechanical consultants are J. Roger Preston and Partners, and the quantity surveyors are
Bridgewater and Coulton.
Far East Architect & Builder November, 1965
Mayfair Mansion (below), a 23-storey shops and flats develop- ment in Leighton Road, Happy Valley, overlooking the racecourse, will be completed in 1967, Piling work is in hand and tenders for the main contract will be invited in February or March next year.
The site will be covered by a podium with shops on the ground floor and a department store on the first to third floors. Fourth to 23rd. floor levels will comprise two and three bedroom domestic flats. There will be eight flats of an average of 900 sq. ft. on each floor.
The building will be a reinforced concrete column structure. Architect is Mr. Eddie Chiu.
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