ISQUARE

Today I am going to introduce you a new shopping mall –isquare, which is located in Tsim Sha Tsui.

The Building
Isquare which is designed by Hong Kong architect Rocco Yim, with a total construction area of 600,000 square feet, including the shopping mall, cinema and three parts of high-block building. The ground floor to the 8 th floor is the main shopping area , including the flagship stores of international brands, primarily sale of watches, jewelry and cosmetics.The low- floor area which are selling fashion cloths, shoes and handbags. At the 7th floor, there have the IMAX cinema with five mini movie theaters, providing about 1,000 seats.

About the High Block property, which is a 20-storey hight building include restaurants, fitness center, yoga and SPA. Brsides, the 30 to 31 top floor penthouse is for the fine dining venues, is about 18,000 feet.

The wall of ISQUARE had used with more than 4,000 pieces of tempered glass and special glass components to be supported the way of the building.This construction had created a precedent of Hong Kong building industory. The shopping mall entrance at Beijing Road has a giant canopy which is composition by thousands of LED lamp；it play different types of animation everyday ; The LB floor also has a projection device wall. In addition, the venue has 43 escalators; five of the escalators is the cross-layer, which can go through each subject area. The escalators to the MTR escalators is total 37 meters long, both sides of the wall had projector to project 10 groups of picture such as plants and trees image, known as iNTER-GROW.

The IMAX Theatre

UA cinema opened UA Isquare on December 17, 2009 in Tsim Sha Tsui and launched the second IMAX in Hong Kong. UA Isquare IMAX theatre is the highest grossing IMAX theatre worldwide for ‘Avatar’ in IMAX 3D and history. The prestigious and exclusive state-of-the-art entertainment spectacle, UA Isquare, houses 5 theatres including Phoenix Club and the biggest IMAX theatre in Hong Kong.

Dining

In Isquare, there have different kind of dishes you can choose, if u like western dishes you can go to visit Carpaccio Pasta, Duke's Deli, Italian Tomato, Key West Café, Kraze Burger…etc. If you like japanese dishes, you can go to Gyu Jin Shabushabu, Ramen Santoula, Romankan Yokohama or Toi Hokkaido Rice Pizza.

If you want more information, you can visit this website :

http://www.isquare.hk/home.php

Enjoy!!

Summer

K11

K11- styles

Do you know where is K11 ? If you haven't go  there before, you should choose K11 to enjoy your shopping!!
K11 is located in Tsim Sha Tsui, it is very convenience for you to go there.

Convenience

K11 is near by the MTR station in Tsim Sha Tsui.  Also, it is connected to a Hyatt Regency hotel and  Masterpiece.
And near  the K11, there have Hong Kong Museum of Arts, HK Cultural Centre and HK Museum of History.

It is the map of K11. I hope it can help you find K11 quickly !

Christmas Holiday is coming soon!!
 Where will you go? Where will you go shopping with your lover?
Let's come to K11, it will give you big surprise!

Events in K11

Christmas Ornament DIY

During the Christmas period 13/11 - 26/12 ( Every Saturday & Sunday) and 24/12,
the tutors will teach you to make your own Christmas decoration in K11, it will very happy with you lover.

Count Down Marathon 2011

At 31/12, Hong Kong Complaints Choir would be the first time to K11 and gathers the beautiful voice from all Hong Kong people and sings over the New Year's Eve. Let's together to celebrate 2012!!

 

This is the decoration of K11, very attractive!

 

This is the look of ourside K11

At night in K11, very romatic

Posted by ELSA

New Town Plaza

WOW!!!This is my turn to introduce a place for you!!This time, i woulg like to introduce all of you to go Shatin. So, which shopping mall I am going to introduce?Yes, It is New Town Plaza!!

New Town Plaza is a shopping mall in a town centre of Shatin. There have three parts of New Town Plaza, phase 1 and phase 3 are connected by each other. Phase 2 is separate from phase 1 and phase 3. The name of phase 2 also is not the same, is called Home Square. Most of the shops in home Square are selling furniture. 

LocationNew Town Plaza is located in town center of Shatin. People can go ther by MTR, east rail line Shatin Station. People who live in mainland also come to New Town Plaza for shopping because it is convenient to them. Also, there have a big bus stop in New Town Plaza. it is very convenient to all of you.    

There have many kinds of shops in New Town Plaza, most of them are big brands. For fashion, it includes agnes b, armani exchange, burberry, I.T, D-mop and others. For beauty and healthcare, there has Lancome, SHISEIDO, SK-II. Also, there has the MENU at Level 7 and Level 1, there has many restaurants  you can choose.

There has a 50,000 square feet outdoor garden, a music fountain  at level 7, it provide a comfortable environment to all of you to take a rest, chat with friends.

Events
Every festival such as Christmas and Chinese new year, there will have some decoration in the mall. Also, they will hold some functions and events.

And this coming christmas, New Town Plaza will have a function, Snow Starlight Christmas!!

Also, there have some decoration at level 7!!!


If you want to know more details about New Town Plaza, you can go this website!!=)
http://www.newtownplaza.com.hk/eng/index.html

posted by Gigi Ho

Stanley Market

This time, I would like to introduce stanley market to all of you: )

Stanley Market is one of the place that tourists must need to go when they visit Hong Kong! But there are also many residents can go there once in a while, becuase when you have been there, you won't feel that you are in Hong Kong, base on there have many special things and the scenery is quite good. Accept for shopping you can have a deep breathe right here. And you will find an interesting array of little shops selling silk garments, sportswear, art, Chinese costume jewellery and souvenirs.  While a bit "touristy" if you are a tourist, it will certainly help you to cross off all the items on your souvenirs-to-buy-Aunt-Jane shopping list.  A hard morning of shopping is also nicely finished off by a good lunch at one of the many restaurants, which are the reason that Hong Kong locals also frequent the area.

It's probably best to go in the morning before things get too hot and crowded.  During summer, the weather is very hot and though the market street is covered that merely seems to trap in the heat somehow.

Here is the video that introduce stanley =)!!

Nic Cheng

Time Square

Time Square

Hi everyone! Now, is almost the end of November, which means the New Year will be coming soon. So does anyone know which place in Hong Kong will have the great celebration for the count down? Yea! Today I am going to introduce you the Time Square (Hong Kong).

The History
Before the completion of Times Square, the area of Russell Street and Sharp Street  were all the traditional markets and factory. But after the redevelopment project, it completely changed the outlook of the place at all. The dark and damp Russell Street had transformed into a famous shoppes lined streets.

In the early completion of Times Square, the Lane Crawford mall was located in the basement. The ground floor and first floor were named ‘Fashion Walk’with a number of world-class fashion boutiques. The venue decoration which are didderent with the other floors. But by December 1996, city'super opened in the Basement, and Lane Crawford was forced to move to the Fashion Walk location. At last ,Fashion Walk is now one of a part of Lane Crawford, the part of the original floor is still remain today.

Now, Time Square is already a famous shopping mall in Hong Kong. Is now owned by the Wharf Properties Limited, which is a part of the Wharf (Holdings) Limited Group.

The facilities

Times Square facilities include the UA cinema era, two office buildings, dozens of restaurants. There are more than 700 parking spaces in the parking lot with a number of shopping boutiques. And the 10-13 floor which is the"Food Forum" Food Plaza. You can take the lift on the ground or the ninth floor of the lift or the escalators to go there.The basement of Time Square which is very convenient because it connected to the MTR Causeway Bay Station A exports.

The main entrance on the ground floor of Times Square Plaza, has always organizing various exhibitions and product promotion activities, the flow of people and rent are among the highest in Hong Kong; and outside of the wall there have a giant outdoor video wall, which often plays cable news, information and sports programming, also available for product promotion.

Since 1994, Times Square Hong Kong had started to imitate the New York Time Square to hold a annual festival on New Year's Eve countdown. It attract thousands of people to participate, and the television, radio and will hold the broadcast live. This famous annual festival which is the ‘Apple Count down’.

The November Event

Here is the

website of Time Square

:

http://www.timessquare.com.hk/#/ch_HK/intro/

Enjoy!!

Summer

Element

ELEMENT

The shopping mall - ELEMENT, have a very speical projecting look and the internal design also very attractive!!
They divide in five zones in their shopping mall, such as, Metal, Fire, Water, Earth.

Let me introduce what is included in Metal, Fire, Water, Earth, Wood!

Metal - is mainly provide the luxury brands such as GUCCI, HERMES,Prada and go on.
The tourists can visite this zone to buy these expensive products.
The mostly interesting thing in Metal is the Metal Zone Art Piece. The "Cloud" is the core theme of Metal Zone, which houses many luxury brands and world-class dining.It can also be seen as a contemporary interpretation of traditional Chinese motifs and western visual culture.

Fire- focus on entertainment

It provides The Grand Cinema is one of the Hong Kong's largest cinema complex in terms of screen number, offering everything from Hollywood blockbusters to international award-winning films, to local, specialty and independent films.

Also, what is the unique attraction of ELEMENT in Hong Kong?

The Hong Kong's first "open rink" -You can enjoy with your childrean in there!

Water

- Foucus on international cuisine and modern fashion

After you watch the movie in the cinema with your family, you can enjoy your lunch or dinner in this area.

A range of international cuisines can be found at Food Village such as Full Moon, Lei Garden, PAK LOH CHIU CHOW RESTAURANT, Sala Thai and go on.



Earth

- For the mens, Element must not be ignore them! 

On ELEMENTS' Men's Street, men with taste will find not only classy fashions but also lifestyle accessories (from coffees to cigars) at Dunhill.

For the audio-visual technology, you can choose the new products in Broadway and Fortress.

Wood

- Foucus the personal selling products on health and beauty boutiques and lifestyle stores.

More than 15 famous cosmetic brands are gathered at Wood Zone such as Anna Sui, Beijing Hair Culture, Bobbi Brown, Biotherm, Chanel, Clinique and go on.

Do you know what is the store of ThreeSixty ?It is Hong Kong's Largest Organic & Natural Foods Store. It's efficient layout and delicious food makes this the perfect alternative for people looking for something different.

You must be try it on !!

This is the vido in Element about the theme of Christmas

This is the exhibition venue

Posted by elsa shiu

MID-WEST: )

This time I would like to introduce Mid-West to you guys: ) Did you hear that before? Its chinese named  美華氏 which is a second hand store in within Rortress Hill and Tin Hau , the owner is Britisher!

Midwest Company was founded in the summer of 1993 under the name of Midwest Textile H.K. Ltd, as a sister company to the main office in the United States, Midwest Textile Company. Midwest Hong Kong was originally established as a Trading Company exporting used clothing to countries throughout Asia as well as Russia and Eastern Europe. The location of the current store is the same location as the trading showroom in 1993, albeit about 10 percent of thr size of the current store.

Due to the high demand from the local market for produce featured in their trading showroom, the retail store was established. Throught the 1990's, the interes in vintage fashion grew tremendously in Hong Kong as it has in the rest of the world.

All of the product are purchased from the United States and they endeavor to make sure that through sorting and careful inspection all our products are original. This is the policy and has been their inception in 1993.
This is all the history about Midwest.And here are the product.

 
Why i choose this store to introduce to you all becuase i like the second hand and classic fashion very much, in Hong Kong so many people only follow the trend to wear their style, it will be lost self fashion, but when i been to Midwest, i can find my own fashion here! Its amazing store, and you will find something you can not saw before in the general shopping place.

The address of Midwest is Midwest Co. shop 58, G/F Victoria Center, 15 Watson Road, Tin Hau, Hong Kong.Although the address in Tin Hau, but i think Fortress Hill MTR station will be more near and easy to get there. Fortrsess Hill Exit B and cross the road you will see McDonal's and than turn left go straight and turn right cross the road you can see that! : )


And its operation hour is 12.00noon to 9.00p.m Daily.
Hope you guys will like this! : )

posted by nic cheng

APM

In Hong Kong, do you know which shopping mall has the longest opening hour everyday?

Yea! That’s APM!





As the name implies, APM name is integrate with the ‘am’ (Day) and ‘pm’ (night). This shopping mall is to promote the concept of night entertainment. Thus, most of the shops are open until midnight. The concept of night entertainment is derived from the work of the workforce in recent years, more and more time, the pressure is also growing, however, the majority of Hong Kong's shopping malls is only open until ten p.m., so there is almost no place for leisure decompression for thise people. In the view of this, developers set the apm positioned as a specialty store mall business hours so that customers are no longer bound by time, can enjoy shopping and leisure.

The main target of APM are young people, with a total area of more than 60 million square feet. As Kowloon East has been always lack of a large shopping mall, so when apm start open in March 2005 ,it become one of the most popular consumer entertainment place for young people. There has also attracted residents from Hong Kong Island and New Territories East as well. At the lobby, there have a stage which always have performances,this is a major feature of the mall. Many New singer, songwriter and performing groups will be singing and performing here, Besides, apm has also become a popular location for those film companies and record company to held their autograph and premiere campaign.

Architecture

APM total have 11th floors, shopping mall have spent 350 glass wall to create a transparent and non-night-day sense of momentum.
In architectural design, X-site representative of the X Generation Site and surprises (Excitement). The X-site design was inspired by lanterns, using the new building technology, manufacturing, suspended mid-air visual effects. Lighting are always transform from different floors to different floors, leading visitors into a ultra-modern sensory world; X-site is located on the 2nd floor to 6th floor, is the heart of innovation and building suspension.

t:>>park

2nd floor of the shopping mall has a outdoor recreational parks, named t:>> park. The theme park is divided into five regions, the use of the concept of stylish design, natural wood floor mixed with European style and wind. LED lights at night time to fabricate lots of geometric patterns and different levels of light, to create a special environment. In 2006 and 2007 Mid-Autumn Festival, t:>> park had set plenty of professional astronomical instruments, free of charge to the public explore the stars.

t:>> park was awarded the Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects 2006 Merit Award for landscape design.

Latest Promotion

You can find out more about this promotion through this link:

http://www.apm-millenniumcity.com/eng/whatshot/whatshot_detail_id=033.php

Enjoy it!!

Summer Law

Langham Place

Langham Place

 Hong Kong people and tourists like shopping in Mongkok, where is the most popular shopping mall in there?

It must be Langham Place. It is a trendy place which include a myriad of

international and local fashion brands, exclusive food & beverage outlets and a cinema. You must like shopping in there, because the decoration of the shopping mall is very attractive and beautiful.

And, it offers a one-stop shopping, dining and entertainment extravaganza for all of you.



 cinema in Langham Place



Decoration

I really like decoration of the Langham Place , it is so attractive!! No matter the outside of the buidling or inside the area are also very interesting. Let me show you some photos:

The name of this decoratio is call " Happy Man "

An exceptional art piece by acclaimed American sculptor Larry Bell.

This is the selling point of Langham Place which is call "Grand Atrium"

Glass wall design, providing a panoramic view of Mongkok from day to night

Intersecting point adjoining the shopping mall, the officer tower and the hotel.

In the Christmas period, they will decorate the place more atmosphere.
Here is the" Crystal castle " in Langham Place, it is very beautiful!

Shops

i.t shop provide many different famous brand such as beams boy, Beams T, Earth Music & Ecology,

Pou Dou Dou, Vert Dense, X-Girl and go on.

You can find something speical in there!

The Langham Place H&M store include the popular Ladies wear, Divided (a young look concept),

Trend (fashion of the fashion), as well as underwear & lingerie.

Most of their products are not very expensive, many people can affordable. Therefore, most of the visitors must go to H&M to take a look!

Convenient

The complex of Langham Place is connected to the MongKok MTR interchange station  an underground passage (Exit C3).

I hope these information can help you, let's go to Langham Place shopping, it must make you unforgetable! Let enjoy it !

Posted by Elsa Shiu

Festival Walk

Now I am going to introduce a Shopping mall that located in Kowloon Tong. Do you know which shopping mall I will going to introduce? I think most of you can guess it!!

Yes,  it is Festival Walk!

Festival Walk is a upper market shopping centre in Hong Kong. It is the biggest and only one shopping mall in Kowloon Tong. It  located in Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong , and located across from the City University of Hong Kong. 

 

There are  217 retail stores and restaurant, a cinema and ice rinksin Festival Walk. It is suitable for the family shopping in there because the shops in Festival Walk are not only suitable for the adult, it also has many child's clothes shops in the mall.NOT only Adult, children can enjoy their time!

                                                        
                                                       

The Cinema in Festival Walk

There are many restaurants in the Festival Walk such as Itamae sushi, Festival China, Pizza Express and others. People can enjoy their meals in those restaurant. However, if you think the prize in those restaurant is too high, you can go to the food court to enjoy your meals. There have a food court in the Festival Walk. We can find different country's food in the food court, so people can eat what they like.

 

How to go there???
It is easy to go!!!The MTR can help you!! Kowloon Tong Stop

Also, you can drive to the Festival Walk and go there by bus!!!
hope these information can help you!=]

post by GIGI HO

Night market: )

Hey everyone, this time we would like to introduce the popular night market in Hong Kong which called Temple Street!: )

Why we want to introduce this street?It is because it is so different from other shopping mall! Temple Street is well known for its night market and the busiest flea market at night in the territory.When you been there, you can feel the traditional culture full whole street, that's good feeling !: ) Also, Temple Street is an amazing shopping sight, featuring rows of brightly lit stalls hawking an astonishing variety of inexpensive items especially for men ─ including clothing, pens, watches, CDs, cassettes, electronic gadgets, hardware and luggage. That's why it is also called 'Men's Street'. : )

Let me show you some nice picture to you guys !!

 

The market starts at 2 p.m. in the afternoon, but is lively at dusk daily. Traffic is closed on the street at that time, and visitors swarm into the street. There are more than a hundred stalls with colourful lights in the market. There are carts bulging with goods from clothing to mobile phones and watches. Stalls have items mainly for men, jeans, t-shirts, pants, lighters, shoes, condoms and men's accessories. Cheap merchandise is common in the night market. Cheap second hand goods such as cassettes, video tapes, old newspapers, antiques are also sold there. Like in other night markets in South East Asia, prices can always be negotiated by bargaining.

If one has to buy merchandise in Temple Street, one has to hunt for shops hidden in streets behind the stalls rather than looking in the stall themselves. This is one of the uniqueness of Temple Street Night Market.

Except Shopping, and i want to tell you guys, there have many good taste food you can try! Finally, I am sure you guys really want to know how can get there right?
Route 1: MTR Jordan Station Exit A. Turn right into Jordan Road and walk three blocks to Temple Street.
and
Route 2: MTR Yau Ma Tei Station Exit C, walk along Man Ming Lane to Temple Street.

posted ny nic cheng