Packed with more than 200 shops, this skyscraper complex and shopping mall is one of Hong Kong’s newest, located in the Kowloon area of MongKok. It occupies an entire two city blocks across the bustling Shanghai Street, with overhead walkways between the Langham Place Hotel on one side and a 15-level shopping mall on the other.
This shopping complex deviates from the usual flattened style to be Hong Kong’s second vertical mall, featuring a nine-story glass atrium that lets natural light pour into the building and the longest shopping mall escalators in the territory. The unique corkscrew design between the 9th and 12th floors means that shoppers naturally walk between levels, while the 13th level sees a “Digital Sky” of computerised images projected onto the mall’s ceiling. There’s an extensive choice of shops on offer, together with a lively food court, and the adjacent Langham Place Hotel as the only 5-star establishment in MongKok.
The easiest way to access Langham Place is through the MongKok Station on Hong Kong’s MTR (Mass Transit Railway), with numerous public bus routes also servicing the complex. Alternatively, there’s also an on-site car park, with around 250 parking spaces available.
Langham Place was part of an urban renewal project in MongKok, with construction beginning on the office space in 1999 before the shopping mall officially opened in 2005. It was undertaken to create a more modern commercial space in what was then a rather dilapidated area of Kowloon, located not far from the red light district of Portland Street.