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In the shopping malls of the 1990s, musical fountains played a very important role. Today, the author will talk to you about the grand occasion of musical fountains in Hong Kong shopping malls, as well as the phenomenon and reasons for its gradual decline in recent years.

1. Tuen Mun Town Plaza

Sino's Tuen Mun Town Plaza, its musical fountain is located in the atrium of the first phase of the shopping mall. As you can see from the photos, the musical fountain is a place where many neighbors gather on weekends. At that time, the third floor of the mall had not been converted into shops, and behind those European-style walls, there was still a parking lot.

Yaohan was the largest tenant of Tuen Mun Town Plaza before closing in December 1997. Later, Jizhidao leased part of the floor of Yaohan a year later. Carrefour was also introduced into the shopping mall and the renovation project began. The musical fountain was demolished along with the renovation project, and the original site was converted into an exhibition space.

2. New Town Plaza

SHKP's New Town Plaza is the pioneer of music fountains in Hong Kong shopping malls. When the New Town Plaza was completed in 1984, in addition to the famous musical fountain in the atrium on the third floor of the first phase, there was also a Roman fountain on the first floor.

Later, like Tuen Mun Town Plaza, the developer moved the musical fountain to the seventh floor in 2003 due to the lack of exhibition space in the first atrium, while the Roman fountain had been demolished in earlier years.

However, the atrium where the original musical fountain was located and the Roman Colosseum where the Roman fountain was located were eventually found to be public spaces that needed to be opened to the public, meaning that Xindi could no longer lease these spaces to merchants.

So far, although the musical fountain on the seventh floor is still in operation, it will no longer be performing.

The musical fountain in the New Town Plaza has successfully united the neighbors, and even new shopping malls in SHKP opened in the 1990s, such as Tsuen Wan Plaza and Metropolis Plaza, and even Henderson Plaza’s Sunshine City Center, also introduced musical fountains, becoming a popular destination for many Hong Kong people. collective memory, but has since been dismantled.

3. New Century Plaza

Completed in 1997, it is also a new century plaza under SHKP, and it is the last new shopping mall in SHKP with a musical fountain.

The musical fountain of the New Century Plaza is located at Shop 188 of the current shopping mall, which is the dining area of URBAN Café Commune.

The difference between this musical fountain and other shopping malls is that the musical fountain is not located on the ground, but on a raised platform.

According to the introduction in the film, in the first few years of the mall's opening, the large screen in the atrium will rise to the seventh floor during the musical fountain performance. play music.

The musical fountain was eventually removed during a mall renovation in 2009.

4. Cityplaza

In the shopping malls of Swire Properties, in addition to the outdoor fountains at Citygate, there was also a musical fountain in Cityplaza, but the scale was much smaller, just like a few enlarged versions of potted plants spraying water on each other, but I believe that The maintenance of the device is also cost-effective.

In addition, there was also a fountain stone ball named "Zen Qingquan" on the fifth floor of the first phase. So far, the running water installations in the shopping mall have been dismantled successively.

5. K11 MUSEA

The last musical fountain introduced today, although not indoors, is the only musical fountain that will perform on a regular basis. It is the Water of Stars located on the waterfront of K11 MUSEA in Tsim Sha Tsui.

Water of Stars is actually a part of the Walk of Fame facility, its installation is 20 meters long and 14 meters wide.

Different from the fountain introduced before, the whole device floats on the sea, and according to the management company's interview with the media, the device needs to apply for a relevant license from the Marine Department.

Each session of the musical performance is five minutes long. However, compared to the surging water column in the clip, the current performance seems to be just like urinating, and the atmosphere is far inferior to that of the New Town Plaza performance.

Whether it's because the things you saw when you were young are particularly spectacular, or whether the relevant parties "shrink the skin", maybe it's up to everyone to judge for themselves.

Music fountains are no longer an indispensable part of shopping malls. In addition to the fact that the design of shopping malls is no longer based on European ancient buildings, large shopping malls have changed to use different combinations of merchants and facilities to attract customers.

Moreover, the maintenance of musical fountains is expensive, and it is also accused of wasting water resources, which is also the reason why major shopping malls are deterred.

In recent years, there is also the Kwun Tong Waterfront Musical Fountain built by the LCSD.

Fortunately, the children have not seen the previous musical fountain and are still fascinated by this fountain show.

The musical fountain show is both a collective memory and a place that can bring something unique to the mall. However, the musical fountain may have gradually declined, and there may not be much living space in Hong Kong, where there is a lot of money.