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terest to the external wall finishes, but the attractiveness of the archi- tectural design is in the placement of the window areas, and the use of reinforced concrete vertical louvres to windows exposed to direct morn- ing or afternoon sun. In the libr- ary, the east and south walls are glass panels built up of a grid of steel framing glazed with anti-sun glass.
Probably the most interesting ele- ment of architectural and engineer- ing detail is the design of the cir- cular lecture room amphitheatre, a section of which is illustrated with this article. This structure has an overall diameter of 58'0" and is sup- ported on columns, leaving the en- tire ground floor as an open covered area forming part of the playground.
The ground floor of the Classroom wing is devoted to a physical science laboratory and a biological science laboratory, with a small classroom between. Each laboratory has its own preparation room. The ground floor of the other wing contains all the business and administration of- fices of the Institution, the faculty lounge, one library stackroom, and the servants' quarters.
The first floor contains four large classrooms, each capable of seating forty-five pupils, a music room at the students who came to Hong Kong as munificent support which it has re-
corner of the building, and the libr- refugees. Their financial resources ceived from the Yale-in-China As- were small, they found themselves sociation, the help and sympathy it ary proper which consists of a huge two-storeyed reading room and in a strange environment. But with receives from Government, and the that devotion that always goes with general approval given it by our pub- periodical room at the back of which true scholarship they set about re- lic at large are all evidence that New fice and working room, with a third is another stackroom, librarian's of- storing the scholastic pattern of Asia is regarded as an investment their lives.
for the future As I have said, in stackroom forming the rear section this field of Education as in all of the upper part of the reading others, there are still milestones
to room.
"It had more than enthusiasm. It had enthusiasm. cherished by a be- be
passed and obstacles overcome, lief in the value and integrity of but none of us can doubt the ultim- its source. The story of scholar- ate fulfilment of its promise." ship in exile is a long and inspiring one. Those who play their part in it are tempered and enriched by their experience, and more likely to value what they
have fought so hard to preserve.
The second floor of the Classroom wing contains four medium-sized classrooms for twenty-seven pupils, and five small classrooms seating fifteen.
The third and fourth floors of the
Cassroom wing each contains dor-
a communal lounge at the west end; and locker rooms. baths, showers and lavatories con- centrated in a group at the east end of each floor.
The building, which is situated on Farm Road opposite the existing Heep Yun School, is most attractive- ly designed and consists of a Class- room and Dormitory wing fronting
mitories with on Farm Road which is five storeys "That is the story of New Asia, high; the Faculty and Library wing, and I am sure that its early ex- three storeys high, running south at periences will be the basis of a rich an angle from the main building: tradition for succeeding generations and in the quadrangle between, the of teachers and students who enjoy circular Amphitheatre Building of the amenities that this building unique design. At the angle of the now offers.
two main building sections is a six storey staircase and lift hall which forms an integral part of the eleva- tional treatment.
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"Its students are no longer fugees. Most of them will remain in Hong Kong and will, I hope, find happy and useful employment here. Granite walls, attractively pointed New Asta has come to stay, and has with coloured cement, have been already earned for itself an import tastefully used to contrast with the and permanent place among shanghai plaster rendering on most educational institutions. The of the exterior surfaces to lend in-
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General Contractors: Sung Foo
Kee.
Steel Windows: China Steel
Works, Ltd.
Plumbing: Lee Yu Kee. Electrical Installation: Universal
Electrical Co. "Franki" Piling:
Hongkong En- gineering & Construction Co.. Ltd.
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