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of hill areas.

At Castle Peak the scheme will cover an area of 1,041 acres, comprising 407 acres of reclamation. 171 acres of existing low-lying areas and 463 acres of hill areas. A typhoon anchorage of about 100 acres is also planned.

ARCHITECTURAL SCHOLARSHIP

THE family of the late Mr. Yu Chun-keung has donated HK$20,000 to the University of Hong Kong for the establishment of a scholarship to be awarded to an un- dergraduate beginning the first year of the Bachelor of Architecture degree course.

Subject to the awardee's satisfactory conduct and progress, the scholarship is tenable for the whole degree course. The first award will be made in September. 1966.

TAIPEI OFFICE BLOCK

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A REINFORCED concrete framed office block of storeys, the first of its size and type in Taiwan, is to be constructed at Chung Shan Road North, Taipei.

It will cover a ground area of 20,000 sq. ft. on a building site area of 45,000 sq. ft. The building de- velopers are The Chia Hsin Cement Corporation, pro- ducers of Olympia Cement. They will occupy the ground

New block for Chia Hsin Cement, Taipei

and first floors and the penthouse. The rest of the floors will be rented by other companies.

The architect is Eric Cumine. FRIBA, of Hong Kong, with Haigo Shen and Associates, and Hsiao Fung, Taipei, acting as associate architects. The building con- tract will be let shortly.

FLYOVER WORK STARTING

ANOTHER stage of construction work is about to begin for the Garden Road Complex, an extensive road scheme designed to improve the existing pattern of traffic flow in the Central district of Hong Kong Island. This is the construction of the foundations for a new flyover across Queen's Road East near Murray House one of a total of seven flyovers to be built under the scheme. foundation contractors are Paul Lee Construction Co.

The

The main flyover will be 34 ft. wide and will be built with a clear span of 113 ft. over Queen's Road East. It will be supported on eight piers.

An elevated slip road passing in front of Murray House to allow traffic on the flyover to pass down to Queen's Road Central will be included in the project.

The building of this flyover, which will form the second stage of the comprehensive road scheme, is to allow traffic in Harcourt Road to proceed to the mid- levels and the Peak by way of the new Kapok Drive. The first stage of the scheme, for which work is already under way, comprises the construction of the part of Kapok Drive between Harcourt Road and Queen's Road

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Model showing the Queen's Road East and Harcourt Road flyovers

East and another flyover along and above Harcourt Road. Of the seven flyovers included in the Garden Road complex, two are at the junction of Kennedy Road, Garden Road and Upper Albert Road: two at the junc- tion of Garden Road and Lower Albert Road: one is at the junction of Garden Road and Queen's Road Central: one over Queen's Road East at its junction with Kapok Drive; and one is in Harcourt Road.

URBAN DESIGN TEAM FORMED

An Urban Design Team (UDT) has been formed in Seoul, South Korea, under the auspices of the Ministry of Cons- truction and the Asia Foundation of USA.

Inititally it consists of one administrative co-ordina- tor. Mr. Yong Ju Hwang, three senior designers, three junior designers and a secretary.

An Institute of Urban Studies, with the UDT as the nucleus, is to be established to co-ordinate the various activities of ministry and private research organisations and to assist the Ministry of Construction in the overall physical planning field.

Advice on city planning and on the operation of the Institute will be given by Dr. H.A. Hosse, the adviser on urban and regional planning of the UN office in Bangkok, and Mr. Oswald Nagler, of USA.

The Institute will eventually invite to Korea foreign specialists in various fields such as civil engineering. architecture, communications and sociology, to attend seminars and to discuss the formulation techniques, pro- gramming and planning for cities in South Korea.

SECOND FIVE-YEAR PROGRAMME

SINGAPORE Housing and Development Board's second five-year housing programme (1966-1970) will cost an estimated M$306.5 million and provides for the construc- tion of 60,000 dwellings.

The main areas to be developed are Toa Payoh Satellite Town, Jurong New Town, Tiong Bahru Fire Site, Kallang Basin, Henderson Road, Queenstown Neighbour- hoods VI and VII, Telok Blangah New Town, and two precincts north and south of Singapore. (N1 and S1).

The dwellings will be erected at the rate of 12,000 a year, according to the board's report for 1964, publish- ed last month. During 1964 the board completed a re- cord number of 13,028 housing units.

Biggest project in the new programme is the develop- ment of the Toa Payoh Satellite Town. Some 36,000

Far East Architect & Builder October, 1965