conduits built into walls and floor, and care has been taken to provide at least four outlets in every room. An addi- tional feature is the provision of an intercommunication system between all rooms.
An item of particular interest is the door hardware. The locksets and latchsets are elegantly designed in stainless steel; the chunky handles and neatly fitting locks are of Finnish origin and imported to the Colony from an English agency.
Extenal Finishes
In treating the facade design, the architect has made imaginative use of several materials. The staggered facade along Tai Hang Road forms a pleasant pattern red brick walls alternate with white plaster walls, broken by the off-form concrete balus- trades of the balconies.
At the base of the building is a re- taining wall made up of large, round blue-grey pebbles set in black mortar. The brick work is laid in Flemish bond. One of the disadvantages of using face bricks as an external finish in Hong Kong is the problem of efflorescence, but this problem was simply overcome by constantly wash- ing the walls down with water until all efflorescence ceased. The cement render is trowel finished to resemble Spanish plaster.
Sub-contractors
Plumbing Sammour Engineering
Co. Electrical
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G.E.C.
Metal windows Dodwell & Co.
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Intercommunication system
Jebsen & Co.
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Ground floor lobby showing large slabs of onyx on both sides and teak frame with fluorescent lights over. In right foreground is home converser unit
Detail of a lock set
Entrance hall. An archway lead. ing to the sleeping quarters. Main entrance door on right
Far East Architect & Builder November, 1967
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