Skip to main content

Dragon Centre








Dragon Centre


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to navigation
Jump to search
























Dragon Centre

HK Dragon Centre 20070922.JPG
Exterior view

Location
Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong
Address
37K Yen Chow St, Sham Shui Po, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Opening date
1994[1]
Developer
Hang Lung Properties
Management
Various
Owner
Eton Properties[2]
Architect
Wong Tung & Partners[3]
Total retail floor area
45,000 m2[1]
77,700 m2GFA[4]
No. of floors
9 floors of retail
5 basement floors (service)[1]
Website
dragoncentre.com.hk




Dragon Centre
Traditional Chinese
西九龍中心








Atrium and abandoned roller coaster.




Entrance




Shops inside arcade




A panda mascot at the mall.


Dragon Centre (Chinese: 西九龍中心; Jyutping: sai1 gau2 lung4 zung1 sam1) 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.




Contents





  • 1 History


  • 2 Features


  • 3 Anchors and retailers


  • 4 Transport


  • 5 See also


  • 6 References


  • 7 External links




History[edit]


Located beside the historic Sham Shui Po Police Station, the centre 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[edit]


The leading tenant is Sincere, a department store. Sunlight shines from the skylight through to the first floor.[3] A bus terminus is located on the ground floor.[1]


The ninth floor features Sky Fantasia (奇趣天地), a children's entertainment centre,[5] as well as an indoor roller coaster, the Sky Train (天龍過山車).[6] The roller coaster, which hangs from the roof, was the second indoor roller coaster in Hong Kong (the first was located in The Wonderful World of Whimsy in Cityplaza), however 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[edit]




  • AKB48 official store[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

  • Wing Hang Bank

  • HSBC

  • 7-Eleven

  • Watson's

  • Sincere

  • Circle K

  • Mannings


  • Wellcome Superstore

  • Lenscrafters

  • Jumpin Gym USA

  • Fairwood

  • Cafe 360

  • Kumon



Transport[edit]


The Dragon Centre is served by the Sham Shui Po Station of the MTR.




See also[edit]


  • Hockey Night in Asia


References[edit]




  1. ^ abcd J. Roger Preston Limited: Dragon Centre, Hong Kong


  2. ^ ETON Properties Ltd.: Introduction


  3. ^ ab 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. 


  4. ^ Wong Tung & Partners: Dragon Centre Archived 25 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine.


  5. ^ ab Sky Rink website Archived 1 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine.


  6. ^ Sky Train at rcdb.com


  7. ^ Admin Dragon Centre – A nine-storey shopping complex in Sham Shui Po I Live Hong Kong


  8. ^ Hong Kong Institute of Architects: Annual Report 2009, "List of Past HKIA Annual Awards" Archived 24 September 2014 at the Wayback Machine.


  9. ^ J. Roger Preston Limited: HKIA Certificate of Merit (1994)


  10. ^ AKB48 official website




External links[edit]




  • Dragon Centre website

  • Pictures of the roller coaster


  • 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. 


Coordinates: 22°19′52″N 114°09′35″E / 22.33111°N 114.15972°E / 22.33111; 114.15972







Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dragon_Centre&oldid=846545520"





Navigation menu


























(window.RLQ=window.RLQ||).push(function()mw.config.set("wgPageParseReport":"limitreport":"cputime":"0.448","walltime":"0.549","ppvisitednodes":"value":2164,"limit":1000000,"ppgeneratednodes":"value":0,"limit":1500000,"postexpandincludesize":"value":41676,"limit":2097152,"templateargumentsize":"value":1725,"limit":2097152,"expansiondepth":"value":14,"limit":40,"expensivefunctioncount":"value":2,"limit":500,"unstrip-depth":"value":0,"limit":20,"unstrip-size":"value":6007,"limit":5000000,"entityaccesscount":"value":1,"limit":400,"timingprofile":["112.92% 525.337 6 Template:Infobox","100.00% 465.245 1 -total"," 57.25% 266.357 1 Template:Infobox_Chinese"," 44.99% 209.332 1 Template:Infobox_Chinese/Chinese"," 34.16% 158.934 1 Template:Lang"," 12.09% 56.244 1 Template:Reflist"," 8.49% 39.476 1 Template:Infobox_shopping_mall"," 7.60% 35.339 1 Template:Cite_thesis"," 5.26% 24.470 1 Template:Commons_category"," 5.09% 23.681 1 Template:EngvarB"],"scribunto":"limitreport-timeusage":"value":"0.250","limit":"10.000","limitreport-memusage":"value":12079481,"limit":52428800,"cachereport":"origin":"mw1257","timestamp":"20180822052628","ttl":1900800,"transientcontent":false);mw.config.set("wgBackendResponseTime":96,"wgHostname":"mw1327"););

Popular posts from this blog

27

Top Tejano songwriter Luis Silva dead of heart attack at 64

Category:Rhetoric