TNAG-2344-FCO40-3410-Future-of-Hong-Kong-British-Consulate-General-1992 — Page 179

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We also considered, and have likewise discarded, Hong Kong Chinese

architectural practices with no connections in the UK, because it

seemed to us that our search for an identifiably British presence

would not be best served by such firms: they, too, are nevertheless

listed below.

12. We have concentrated, therefore, on UK expatriate

architectural firms in Hong Kong with strong links and, in the

main, Head Offices in the UK. There are fewer practices falling

into this category than we previously understood, and most of them

are listed below. From this category we have produced the

short-list below of 5 practices from whom we should invite outline

design proposals, and we are confident that from them we should

obtain the highest quality of design and, with the Project

Manager's active direction, the most reliable standard of execution

and cost control. I recommend that we should, in due course,

invite design proposals from

Design Brief

13. We had lengthy discussions with both the British Council and

the HK Immigration Service about their organisational requirements

in the new building, and toured both their present premises in some

detail, in support of the work that we were doing in formulating

the design brief. The British Council's requirements are

relatively straightforward and already well understood by us and by

This is not yet the case for the future Consular, Passport

and Immigration sections of the Consulate-General because of

problems of disentangling the work that these sections will do from

them.

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