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Dragon Centre
Exterior view
Map
LocationSham Shui Po, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Coordinates22°19′52″N 114°09′35″E / 22.33111°N 114.15972°E / 22.33111; 114.15972
Address37K Yen Chow Street
Opening date1994; 30 years ago (1994)
DeveloperEton Properties
ManagementVarious
OwnerEton Properties[1]
ArchitectWong Tung & Partners[2]
Total retail floor area45,000 m2 (480,000 sq ft)[3]
77,700 m2 GFA[4]
No. of floors9 floors of retail
5 basement floors (service)[3]
Websitedragoncentre.com.hk
Dragon Centre
Traditional Chinese西九龍中心
Simplified Chinese西九龙中心
Literal meaningWest Kowloon Centre
Atrium of Dragon Centre.
Ground floor of Dragon Centre.

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 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

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

Transport

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

References

  1. ^ Eton Properties Ltd.: Introduction Archived 8 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ 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)
  3. ^ a b c J. Roger Preston Limited: Dragon Centre, Hong Kong
  4. ^ Wong Tung & Partners: Dragon Centre Archived 25 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ a b 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 Archived 3 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine 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. ^ "商舖租務". www.dragoncentre.com.hk.

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