Dragon Centre
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| Location | Sham Shui Po, Kowloon, Hong Kong |
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| Coordinates | 22°19′52″N 114°09′35″E / 22.33111°N 114.15972°E / 22.33111; 114.15972 |
| Address | 37K Yen Chow Street |
| Opening date | 1994 |
| Developer | Eton Properties |
| Management | Various |
| Owner | Eton Properties[1] |
| Architect | Wong Tung & Partners[2] |
| Total retail floor area | 45,000 m2 (480,000 sq ft)[3] 77,700 m2 GFA[4] |
| No. of floors | 9 floors of retail 5 basement floors (service)[3] |
| Website | dragoncentre.com.hk |
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| Traditional Chinese | 西九龍中心 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 西九龙中心 | ||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | West Kowloon Centre | ||||||||||||
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Dragon Centre is a nine-storey shopping centre in the Sham Shui Po area of Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was the largest in West Kowloon until the Elements opened above the Kowloon MTR station.
History
Located beside the historic Sham Shui Po Police Station, the mall was built on part of the site of the former Sham Shui Po Camp, a prisoner-of-war camp for Commonwealth forces captured during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, which was also used to house Vietnamese refugees in the late 1970s and 1980s.
Features
The leading tenant is Sincere, a department store. Sunlight shines from the skylight through to the first floor.[2] A bus terminus is located on the ground floor.[3]
The ninth floor features Sky Fantasia (奇趣天地), a children's entertainment centre,[5] and an indoor roller coaster, the Sky Train (天龍過山車).[6] This hangs from the roof and was the second indoor roller coaster in Hong Kong (the first was located in the Wonderful World of Whimsy in Cityplaza), but it has been closed since the mid-2000s.[7] The eighth floor features an ice skating rink, the Sky Rink (飛龍冰上樂園),[5] and a food court.
The Dragon Centre won the Hong Kong Institute of Architects 1994 Certificate of Merit Award.[8][9]
Anchors and retailers
- Sixty Eight Store
- Apple Mall (蘋果商場), a mall-within-a-mall, split into 3 levels on the 5th, 7th, and 9th floors[10]
- Baleno
- Bossini
- BSX
- City Chain
- Fortress World
- Pizza Hut
- McDonald's
- KFC
- Yoshinoya
- Ajisen Ramen
- Pokka Cafe
- Kee Wah Bakery
- Aji Ichiban Co., Ltd
- Bank of China
- HSBC ATM
- 7-Eleven
- Watsons
- Sincere
- Mannings
- ParknShop Superstore
- Lenscrafters
- Jumpin Gym USA
- Fairwood
- Cafe 360
- Kumon
Transport
The Dragon Centre is served by the Sham Shui Po station of the MTR.
References
- ^ Eton Properties Ltd.: Introduction Archived 8 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Kwok, Ka-chun, Peter (1995). Remodelling U.C. Complex in Kennedy Town (MArch thesis). Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong. p. 21. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
{{cite thesis}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ a b c J. Roger Preston Limited: Dragon Centre, Hong Kong
- ^ Wong Tung & Partners: Dragon Centre Archived 25 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Sky Rink website Archived 1 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Sky Train at rcdb.com
- ^ Admin Dragon Centre – A nine-storey shopping complex in Sham Shui Po Archived 3 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine I Live Hong Kong
- ^ Hong Kong Institute of Architects: Annual Report 2009, "List of Past HKIA Annual Awards" Archived 24 September 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ J. Roger Preston Limited: HKIA Certificate of Merit (1994)
- ^ "商舖租務". www.dragoncentre.com.hk.
Further reading
- Lui, J.Y.H.; Yau, P.K.F. (1995). "The performance of the deep basement for Dragon Centre". Proceedings of the Seminar on Instrumentation in Geotechnical Engineering. Hong Kong: Geotechnical Division, Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. pp. 183–201.
External links
- Dragon Centre website
- Pictures of the roller coaster