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The Carmel Schools Association is distributed on 3 campuses on Hong Kong Island. The elementary school campus on Borrett Road consists of a 3-story Edwardian neoclassical red brick building. With long, curved terraces, columns, granite walls and front doors with pediment, it is a relic of ancient Hong Kong.
Construction was the former british army hospital of the British garrison, which officially opened in 1907. During the Japanese occupation, he was commanded by the Japanese army as a hospital. Some of the construction was used for sick British prisoners of war, and after the war, the hospital was used through the British garrison until the opening of a new British Army hospital in King’s Park in 1967. Today, the historic construction of Grade II has the preschool and elementary campus of the Jewish community.
10 Borrett Road, Middle Levels, Hong Kong
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Before installing the red brick neoclassical monument discovered today on Bonham Road, King’s College, Saiyingpun School, which was established through the British government on Third Street in 1879. As more and more academics enrolled, the school moved to larger facilities. on Pokfulam Road in 1891, and later in its existing site, when the structure was completed in 1926. That same year it was renamed King’s College.
King’s College is described as “one of the most beautiful and fashionable school buildings” in the 1926 Hong Kong Administrative Report. It was so well stocked that it seized the army government as the British Shanghai district and hospital. Defence Force in 1927. In 1941, when the Pacific War broke out, King’s College, which was installed with the St. John ambulance apparatus, was used as a relay post. During the Japanese occupation, the school was used as an army mule and solid for the Japanese army. It is now one of six pre-war government school buildings in Hong Kong.
The campus is known for its Italian Renaissance-looking openings of the front porch, the red brick Roman arched colonnades along the facade and the south wing corridor on the floor, the attached columns form loggias on the grounds first and for the day, the lawn on the ground floor with a fountain and a curved wall with arched colonnation.
63A Bonham Road, Hong Kong
Established in 1906 under Sheng Kung Hui Church in Hong Kong (Anglican Church), St. Stephen’s Girls’ College is one of the first schools to pursue girls’ education in Hong Kong. Her former scholars come with some of the first women graduates from the University of Hong Kong.
Originally located at 27 Caine Road, it moved to its current location in 1923, which was officially opened through Lady Stubbs, wife of the then governor, Sir Reginald Stubbs, a year later. Its largest construction was declared a monument in 1992. The 4-storey layout consists of 4 wings surrounding a school room. Chinese pan-and-roll shingles have been installed to cover its roof, which is based on a formula of wooden farms. The vintage design and layout of this building resemble a classic Chinese courthouse, which are characteristic of east-west architectural designs in Hong Kong at the time.
2 Lyttelton Road, Hong Kong
This combined high school is one of the few boarding schools and the largest high school in Hong Kong, with an area of approximately 150,000 square meters. Founded through the Reverend Bishop Banister of the Anglican Church and prominent Chinese Sir Ho Kai and Dr. Tso Seen-wan, who sought the education of the Chinese, the existing campus was built in 1928.
The school was the first completed construction. This H-shaped construction, consisting of an east wing, a west wing and a central block, is designed in the past due to the transitional taste of Arts and Crafts, which is marked by a modernist influence. Arched windows and doors, arched terraces and Western architectural elements combine with Chinese rooftops to accommodate Hong Kong’s subtropical climate. It is the oldest preserved school construction in Hong Kong, and also one of the few remaining structures used as a component of Stanley’s internment camp during the Japanese occupation, when Japanese infantrymen stormed construction and killed 56 Britons. and Canadian infantrymen who were still wounded in their beds on Christmas Eve 1941.
Many of the school’s annexes are now historic second- or third-year buildings with charming designs that reflect replacement in times and style. Public access is allowed to the bungalow No. 3 on Saturday mornings once a month by appointment.
22 Tung Tau Wan Road, Stanley, Hong Kong
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The Catholic School for Girls was founded on Austin Road in 1925 as a kindergarten through the Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic. In 1931, the next Kowloon Tong community intended as an ideal place for a convent school, and the structure of a new campus to accommodate the front of the school on Waterloo Road began in 1933. The main structure ended in 1937 with the taste of a medieval monastery or school with an open periste courtyard surrounded by cloisters.
Highlights include features, adding a tower, a granite staircase, the auditorium’s Romanesque vaulted ceiling, warhead arches, rump or sloping ceilings. The rest of the neo-Tudor school complex was encouraged through Art Deco, Romanesque, Neo-Orgosaur and Neo-Gothic architectural styles. During World War II, it was used as a Japanese army hospital. There have not been many primary opportunities for this reddish campus resembling a fort to date, with the exception of delicious gardening.
5 Ho Tung Road, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Founded in 1869, Christian Principles School is one of the oldest and most prestigious high schools in the city. The main campus built in 1926. As Hong Kong’s third-largest school, it is also known for its long staircase, known as The Steps, which runs from Prince Edward Road West to the north front of the school since the 1920s. George Samuel Zimmern, the principal in the 1950s, built a trail called Reverend George She Path alongside The Drive, which is a long, winding road leading to Argyle Street Hill on the south front of the school.
In addition to the main building, which incorporated British architectural features (a green lawn and a roundabout located under the porch of British villas) and the comforts of the Chinese courtyard, the campus was known for its greenery that separated it from the bustling Mongkok district. until much was allowed to expand the campus in the 2000s.
131 Argyle Street, Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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Harrow International School Hong Kong opened in September 2012 and is the first British boarding school in Hong Kong. The school is a branch of the historic Harrow School in the United Kingdom, which was founded in 1572 and has hosted royals, poets and world leaders, as well as King Hussein of Jordan, Churchill, Jawaharlal Nehru, Lord Byron, Benedict Cumberbatch, Laurence Fox. and singer-songwriter James Blunt. In 1998, Harrow Bangkok was Harrow’s first school in Asia, followed by others in Beijing in 2005 and Shanghai in 2016.
The Hong Kong campus is built on the site of a former army barracks in So Kwun Wat. The 9-acre site on the Gold Coast domain offers stunning sea views. Located right next to Tai Lam Country Park, the campus is close to MacLehose Trail. At the center of the majestic construction of the crescent-shaped school is the library and the learning room. They are located on two floors connected via an open staircase. The campus also includes a nine-story boarding point.
38 Tsing Ying Road, Tuen Mun, New Territories, Hong Kong
A monument declared since 1984, the main construction of Loke Yew Hall is the oldest design of hong Kong Historical University, which was founded in 1911. Named after Chinese businessman Wong Loke Yew, who financed the university’s initial development, the corridor hosts the elementary university times and ceremonies. The construction house to the Faculty of Engineering and Medicine, then to the departments of the Faculty of Arts.
Designed by architect Leigh and Mr. Orange, the construction is post-Renaissance style, embodied through red brick and granite and two courtyards. The main elevation is articulated through 4 turrets with a central clock tower donated through Sir Paul Chater in 1930. The roof of the corridor was rebuilt after being seriously broken during World War II. However, the interior design and maximum of the room’s internal vintage ornaments have been preserved in the original style. In 2007, she appeared in Lust, Ang Lee’s Caution, which won the Golden Lion Award from the Venice International Film Festival.
University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong
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Kai Tak’s campus, tucked away in Ping Shek’s playground, is perhaps less known as an institution’s campus. What was once the official dining room of the Royal Air Force is now a historic Grade I building, which has retained its unique colonial architectural taste of the early 20th century. It is an elegant design with white pillars, a lime green roof, a lawn in the middle and a stone staircase that leads visitors to the entrance.
Separated from the main campus of Hong Kong Baptist University in Kowloon Tong, this Kai Tak campus houses the Academy of Visual Arts, the first of its kind in Hong Kong. In addition to providing a quiet setting for art scholars to practice, it also hosts the AVA Grad Show and the Tuna Prize.
51 Kwun Tong Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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Highlights from the rest of hong Kong Polytechnic University’s reddish brown campus with its sublime windows and imposing structure, this modern-looking building is the Jockey Club’s innovation tower. Located in the northern component of the university, it houses the School of Design with multifunctional spaces: a convention hall, 10 classrooms, design studios, workshops, exhibition spaces and a non-unusual viewpoint.
The genius who created 15,000 square meters of net area in this building is none other than Iraqi British architect Zaha Hadid, the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004. As revealed on PolyU’s website, Hadid explained his design, “The fluid nature of the innovation tower is generated through an intrinsic composition of its landscape, floor plates and shutters that dissolves the vintage typology of the tower and podium into an iconic seamless piece. These fluid interiors and courtyards create new public areas on an intimate scale that complement the giant open display forums and recreational amenities to advertise a variety of civic areas.
11 Yuk Choi Road, Hung Hom
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