Langham Place is a commercial complex and shopping centre in Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Several city blocks, including the old "Bird Street" marketplace, were demolished to make way for the commercial complex.
The HK$10 billion project began as a 50:50 joint development between Great Eagle and the Urban Renewal Authority (URA).
[7] In 2005, wishing to reduce debt levels, Great Eagle sold 4 individual floors of the Langham Place Office Tower.
Construction of the office tower, which contains 7,200 m2 (78,000 sq ft) of space,[5] began in 1999 under the design of Wong & Ouyang and the Jerde Partnership and was completed in 2004.
The exterior of the mall is characterised by a multi-faceted façade of yellow fissured Brazilian granite stretching from street level to the roof.
[citation needed] Another distinctive feature is the 9-storey glass atrium which lets in natural lighting and allows passersby to look through the middle of the building.
Happy Man – The 2,700-kilogram sculpture commissioned from American designer Larry Bell, at the front entrance of the arcade.
The lighting was originally designed and programmed by Jason Saunders of Photonic-Motion in Melbourne Australia, in sequence with video on a Wholehog 2 PC running midi time code.
However, after learning of the proposed filming site at Langham Place, many fans gathered at the mall, leading to an overcrowding and made it impossible to shoot an episode.
Exit C3 of the adjacent Mong Kok station connects directly to the basement levels of the Langham Place shopping centre.