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Tang Chi Ngong Building, University of Hong Kong 邓志昂楼Dèng Zhì'áng Lóu

Declared monument · Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Tang Chi Ngong Building, University of Hong Kong (邓志昂楼)
Photo: Chingleung, Public domain
Time needed
15 minutes
Days to budget
Half a day
City
Hong Kong
Region
Hong Kong
Type
Heritage
Listed as
Declared monument

About Tang Chi Ngong Building, University of Hong Kong

Built in 1929 with a donation from Tang Chi-ngong and opened in 1931, this building was designed to house the University of Hong Kong's School of Chinese. It is a symmetrical, three-storey Neo-classical block, with grooved plaster surfaces made to look like stone blocks and a band of Greek key fretwork between the ground and first floors. It now houses the Jao Tsung-I Petite Ecole, which displays the art and artefacts of the scholar and artist Jao Tsung-I.

How to get to Tang Chi Ngong Building, University of Hong Kong

On the University of Hong Kong campus beside Pok Fu Lam Road, about 0.5 km east of HKU MTR station; only the exterior is a declared monument, and the Jao Tsung-I Petite Ecole inside is closed on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.

Nearby

Also within 20 km: Fung Ping Shan Building, University of Hong Kong 香港大学冯平山楼 (under 10 km), King's College 英皇书院 (under 10 km), Eliot Hall and May Hall, University of Hong Kong 香港大学仪礼堂及梅堂 (under 10 km), Main Building, University of Hong Kong 香港大学本部大楼 (under 10 km), Hung Hing Ying Building, University of Hong Kong 香港大学孔庆荧楼 (under 10 km), Old Tsan Yuk Maternity Hospital 旧赞育医院 (under 10 km).

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