Dragon Centre Explained

Dragon Centre
Location:Sham Shui Po, New Kowloon, Hong Kong
Coordinates:22.3311°N 114.1597°W
Developer:Eton Properties
Manager:Various
Owner:Eton Properties[1]
Architect:Wong Tung & Partners
Floor Area:
77,700 m2 GFA[2]
Floors:9 floors of retail
5 basement floors (service)
Address:37K Yen Chow Street
Order:jp
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T:西九龍中心
S:西九龙中心
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Y:Sāigáulùhng jūngsām
P:Xī Jiǔlóng Zhōngxīn
L:West Kowloon Centre

Dragon Centre is a nine-storey shopping centre in the Sham Shui Po area of New Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was the largest in New 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.[3] A bus terminus is located on the ground floor.[4]

The ninth floor features Sky Fantasia, a children's entertainment centre,[5] and an indoor roller coaster, the Sky Train .[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,[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

Transport

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

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. Eton Properties Ltd.: Introduction
  2. [Wong Tung & Partners]
  3. Kwok. Ka-chun, Peter. Remodelling U.C. Complex in Kennedy Town. 1995. MArch. Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong. 21. 23 September 2014 .
  4. J. Roger Preston Limited: Dragon Centre, Hong Kong
  5. http://www.skyrinkhk.com/ Sky Rink website
  6. http://rcdb.com/2258.htm# Sky Train
  7. Admin Dragon Centre – A nine-storey shopping complex in Sham Shui Po I Live Hong Kong
  8. [Hong Kong Institute of Architects]
  9. J. Roger Preston Limited: HKIA Certificate of Merit (1994)
  10. Web site: 商舖租務 . www.dragoncentre.com.hk .