Last rooftop photo

Mon, 09/22/2014 - 22:22

This is the last of the rooftop photos.  I shall look forward to any comments as always,  it looks like a bombsite to me!

Regards,  Pauline.

Date picture taken
1954

Comments

Alexandra House full on during the Coronation in 1953: http://gwulo.com/node/8910

In the flickr photo, the buildings at the back of Alexandra House to the left facing Chater Road and right facing Des Voeux Road Central were respectively called the Royal Building and Chung Tin Building.

Your photo shows that the old buidlings have been knocked down for the expansion of Alexandra House into one mega building at the time which can be seen after completion: http://gwulo.com/node/5439

Submitted by
julian (not verified)
on
Mon, 06/20/2011 - 11:36

This is the substructure/ foundation stage of a large building project. But I am not sure of the location.

The site hoarding entrance sign reads 'Vibro'. This company is still active in HK as far as I know, and still doing major foundation contracts.

Its always a messy stage of the project, and we can see some parts of the basement have already been cast to the top left, while other parts of the site remain inexcavated.

Raking struts are visible in the bottom right excavation, supporting the road, while the dig is in progress.

Its a lot more mechanized these days, with large plant and equipment used, and less labour - though usually just as messy!

The dig here seems to be undertaken by hand.

Finally HK went on to pioneer the 'top down' foundation approach through the 1980's, owing to the urgency of construction and the high value of the land.

This involves casting the piles/ ground beams from ground level, then building up the superstructure and digging down to form the basements at the same time, thereby shortening the construction programme!

Time is money as they say...

regards

Julian