Harrow's Hong Kong campus, constructed on a 3.7-hectare site of a former military barracks, is its third to be built outside Britain.
As we walk around the university campus, constructed almost entirely on Aalto's designs, I ask her about winter in Finland.
The school opened a fifth campus in Nanjing, China in 1998, with a residential campus constructed on property owned by the High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University.
A campus plan was created and $150,000 was appropriated to develop the campus and construct the first buildings.
Negotiations are currently under way to acquire an eight-acre parcel adjacent to the medical campus to construct a parking garage that may include a hotel with retail space and more medical facilities.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the university invested US$150 million in the campus to construct buildings for the library, foreign languages, social sciences, communications, philosophy, electrical and petroleum engineering, art, and architecture.
During that time, the University recruited many world-class faculty, created the University Fellows Program, which brought outstanding young scientists to campus, and constructed a major new research building.
In 2000, a new University campus was constructed through the renovation of existing Victorian school buildings coupled to modern, highly glazed office extensions.
The campus was constructed at a cost of 10.3 million U.S. dollars (42.7 million 2010 dollars).
John V. Bennes designed the new building, as well as many of the campus buildings constructed during that period.
