Campuses of the University of Hong Kong

The university's main campus covers 160,000 square metres (1,700,000 sq ft; 40 acres) of land on Pok Fu Lam Road and Bonham Road in Lung Fu Shan[citation needed] of Central and Western District,[1] Hong Kong Island.

HKU buildings are some of the few remaining examples of British colonial architecture in Hong Kong.

The university lends its name to HKU station, the main public transport access to the campus (and the Lung Fu Shan and Shek Tong Tsui neighbourhoods), opened on 28 December 2014.

The Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine is situated 4.5 km[clarification needed] southwest of the main campus, in the Southern District near Sandy Bay and Pok Fu Lam.

The Faculty of Dentistry is situated in the Prince Philip Dental Hospital, Sai Ying Pun.

The university also operates the Kadoorie Agricultural Research Centre, which occupies 95,000 square metres (1,020,000 sq ft; 23 acres) of land in the New Territories, and the Swire Institute of Marine Science at the southern tip of the Cape d'Aguilar Peninsula on Hong Kong Island.

The main elevation is articulated by four turrets with a central clock tower (a gift from Sir Paul Chater in 1930).

The design of the word 'S' looks like two hands holding each other, signifying that all hall-mates should co-operate with each other, and promoting the hall motto 'Unity and Sincerity'.

The two-storey Edwardian style structure is characterised by a central dome and the use of red brick to emulate the Main Building opposite.

It was opened by Sir William Peel, Governor of Hong Kong, in 1931 and since then further donations have been received for the endowment of teaching Chinese language and literature.

[10] The construction of the campus started in late 2009, and was completed in 2012, the first year of the introduction of the new academic structure in Hong Kong.