Bulletin Summer‧Autumn 1993

The Chang ing Landscape Campus Development a n d New. Facilities The U n iversity has a campus mea suring some 134 hectares located on a tract o f land under lease from the H ong Kong G overnm ent no rth o f the Sha T in New T ow n in the New T erritories. It commands sce n ic view s o f T olo H arbour to the no rth and T ide Cove to the east. The cam pus varies in elevation from 4 .4 to 140 metres above sea level and has been carved from a rocky p rom on to ry in to a num ber o f plateaux to p ro vid e the sites fo r b u ild in g s o f the U niversity and its fo u r colleges. Buildings fo r central activities are located m ainly at the m id- level. The expanse o f land in the valley next to the University Station o f the Kow loon-Canton Railway has been the campus o f Chung Chi College since 1956- At the highest le ve l are U n ited College and New Asia College Each o f the original colleges has its own admin is tration and teaching b loc k s , library, sta ff/ student amenities build ing, student hostels and staff quarters. Shaw College, comm issioned in 1 989 a t t he northwest tip o f the campus, has comparable facilities a xcept accomm odation fo r academ ic de- partments, as it was designed to be a residential college only. D uring the last, three decades, some 110 buildings, big and small, have been erected on the once bar ren hillside.