Langham Place

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Langham Place is a 3-in-1 shopping mall, hotel and office tower that opened in the fourth quarter of 2004 in Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China. It occupies two entire blocks defined by Argyle Street, Portland Street, Shantung Street and Reclamation Street. Shanghai Street separates the hotel with office tower from the shopping mall.

Jointly developed by the Great Eagle Group and the Urban Renewal Authority of Hong Kong, the 59 storey Grade A office tower is the tallest in Kowloon and Mong Kok with a height of 255m. The complex houses a 15 storey mall including 2 basements that spirals itself up to the 13th floor and a 665 room hotel. The mall is also connected to the Mong Kok MTR station of the MTR via Exit C3 which opened on March 3, 2005. The Great Eagle Group announced the sale of individual floors of the Langham Place Office Tower in August 2005.

Contents 1 Hotel 2 Shopping Mall 3 Unique design features 4 Trivia 4.1 Notable tenants 5 See also 6 External link

[edit] Hotel

Adjacent to the office tower and shopping mall, the hotel is a 5 star 665 room hotel and is directly connected to the mall and office tower. Managed by the Langham Hotels International, it has 42 floors.

[edit] Shopping Mall

The shopping mall is a 15 storey mall including two basement levels, and is directly connected to Mong Kok MTR station. There is a food court on the 4th and a cinema on the 8th run by UA Cinemas with six screens and 112 seats in total.

[edit] Unique design features

The building also has the longest escalators within a shopping mall in the territory, called the "Xpresscalators". A pair is located on the 4th floor leading up to the 8th and another pair leads to the 12th floor.

The shopping mall has a section called "The Spiral" from the 9th to 13th floor of the building.

A dome caps the exterior of the building. At night, an array of lights fitted to the dome is programmed to change colours progressively from the bottom upwards.

[edit] Trivia

• The building is used as main background for the TVB drama: Under the Canopy of Love.

[edit] Notable tenants

• Seibu
• Muji
• i.t
• G2000
• Suzuki Tokyo Cafe
• Pacific Coffee Company
• Mr. Steak Cafe
• 80M Bus Model Shop
• UA Cinemas
• Yoshinoya

[edit] See also

• Mong Kok
• Yau Tsim Mong District

[edit] External link

• Official web site of Langham Place