Pacific Place is massive mixed-use urban complex in Hong Kong's Central district along Queensway and Hong Kong Park. Nearby are the famed Lippo Centre and Bank of China as well as Hong Kong's Supreme Courthouse. Designed by the firm of Wong & Ouyang as one of the city's largest comprehensive commercial developments, Pacific Place was built on the site of the old Victoria Barracks in two phases: Phase I (1985-86) and Phase II (1988-91).

You can download the entire Pacific Place SCURK Collection here:

PCX Archive: Download pacplPCX.zip (size 18292)
GIF Archive: Download pacplGIF.zip (size 23916)
TIL Archive: Download pacplTIL.zip (size 23983)
MIF Archive: Download pacplMIF.zip (size 22372)

Special thanks to Ryan Griffin and Chris Nacinovich for the converted MIF tilesets.

JW Marriot Hotel

This 40-story building houses the 609-room JW Marriot Hotel in its upper portion, the Atrium apartments in its lower half, and a 4-screen cinema in its base. This was part of Phase I.

Download PCX Jwmarrio.zip (size 3494).
Download Jwmarrio.GIF (size 4011).

One Pacific Place

This is a 36 story office building and was part of Phase I. In the podium is housed a portion of the 3-level Pacific Place shopping mall and its skylit atrium.

Download PCX 1paplace.zip (size 4025).
Download 1paplace.GIF (size 4159).

Conrad International Hotel

This modern 5-star hotel boasts 511 rooms all located in the upper portion of the tower. The 36 stories of the elliptical tower house the Parkside apartments in its lower half. The base of this portion of Phase II contains the mall's food court.

Download PCX Conradho.zip (size 5759).
Download Conradho.GIF (size 5928).

Island Shangri-La Hotel

The flamboyant neo-baroque luxury of the 566-room, 5-star Island Shangri-La Hotel fills the upper levels of this 50-story elliptical tower. This final tower of Phase II also includes office space called Two Pacific Place and parts of the shopping mall.

Download PCX Shangril.zip (size 5637).
Download Shangril.GIF (size 7328).

Once again, you can download the entire Pacific Place SCURK Collection with these four buildings here:

PCX Archive: Download pacplPCX.zip (size 18292)
GIF Archive: Download pacplGIF.zip (size 23916)
TIL Archive: Download pacplTIL.zip (size 23983)
MIF Archive: Download pacplMIF.zip (size 22372)

Some notes on scurking all this:

Following in the footsteps made by James Nissen's Pentagon, Wren Weburg's Mall of America, Charles Warren's Busch Stadium, Richard Yoon's GE Building, Chris Nacinovich's palace castle, and even a far earlier Pacific Place by Lorencio S. Mateo, I tried to make a Pacific Place multiple-tile SCURK building. However, I also wished to allow all the component buildings to work independently, much like Stephen McGlen's Louvre and Lee Tong's Temple of Solomon. Complicating matters, the complex is on a sloping site with portions underground. Thus, I've done alot of improvising and fakery, expecially with facades that don't exist on the real buildings.

The lower base of the Conrad Hotel should be underground, but as making a slope is out of the question on this tile, I tried to make a more elaborate base and pool. I've also simplified some of the swirly portions that exist on the real base, and the tower curvature does not look quite correct (but I'm sick of dealing with it!). The same is true of the Shangri-La Hotel, though its base is more true to form with the curved sunken garden. Next to the Shangri-La is a tall complementary government office building, of which only a butchered angular piece of the base could be included (I didn't want to leave a blank plaza). The Shangri-La's "S" icon is not quite accurate, but I prefered mine over the more correct but hard to see red "S" on a white background. Also, the Shangri-La's large supporting columns are in reality covered with glazing, but I find glass columns atrociously kitschy. I also guessed on the half-circle base skylight as I didn't have views of that portion of the building. I think the curved skylight is actually made up of radial pyramidal skylights, but I couldn't quite draw those nicely, so I made it flat reflective glass (I'm particularly fond of the reflection in it).

I tried my best making dark glass for the smooth skin of One Pacific Place and on the angular bays of the Marriot Hotel. I also tried my best with the curving sides of the elliptical towers. They should be slightly more reflective, but it's already a nightmare mixing the pixels for the thin curving spandrels and gradual modelling the curved surface without throwing in reflective glass. While you correct the pixelling of the spandrels, you have to deal with keeping everything crisp looking and keeping some color. Then there is the interesting yet frustrating phenomenon of strong verticle lines and other patterns cutting across the facade due to alignments of certain pixels. You try and fix that and then find that in doing so you messed up the gradient and spandrels again. Aaaarrggh! They're still not perfectly smoothed out, but I am not touching them anymore!

Fortunately, I didn't do these from scratch. I had an excellent close-up aerial shot of Pacific Place that was at almost the perfect angle. Cut-and-paste is cool, but cleaning the mish-mashy colored mess and bringing out the details is slow work. I've been tinkering with these tiles since last summer trying my best to remain consistent even though the style changed over time.

Enjoy!