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The Peninsula Hotel and its rooftop helipads
The 1928 building round its forecourt, the 1994 tower and its two green rooftop pads, rebuilt from period photos.
The Peninsula Hotel on Salisbury Road has been rebuilt from period photos. The old placeholder boxes are gone. In their place is the 1928 building round its forecourt, the 1994 tower behind it, and the tower's two rooftop helipads, where the hotel's S-76 waits for the harbour tour.
The 1928 building
Two cream wings run forward to Salisbury Road on either side of the forecourt, joined by the central block with the entrance canopy and THE PENINSULA over the door. There are tall windows with pediments, corner quoins, a heavy cornice and an attic floor, and an arcade of arched shopfronts at street level. Blue-and-white striped awnings run round the forecourt and the street fronts. In the forecourt, the hotel's green Rolls-Royce Silver Spurs are parked round the fountain. (The Phantoms did not arrive until 2006.)
The 1994 tower
The tower rises behind the old building, built in the same cream style. A dark glazed bay runs up the middle of its long faces, and two big arches sit in the crown under a deep cornice. A podium in the same style fills the back of the block. The tower's roof is about 101 m up, and the old building is about 33 m.
The rooftop helipads
There are two round green pads on white drums, and they overhang the roof. Pad No. 1 is to the south-west and No. 2 to the north-east. Each pad has a yellow touchdown ring, the pad number on both sides, a 07t weight limit, yellow approach dashes and THE PENINSULA round the edge. Pad No. 2 also has an H. A green-and-white safety net runs round each rim, and green lights mark the edge at night. The hotel's S-76 now parks on pad No. 1 and lands back there at the end of the scenic tour.
At night
After dark the whole building is floodlit gold. Windows light up across the wings and the tower, with lamps along the cornice, headlights in the forecourt and red obstruction lights on the roof.
To see it up close, take the Harbour helicopter tour from the home screen. It starts and ends on pad No. 1.
參考當年嘅相片，我哋重建咗梳士巴利道上面嘅半島酒店。之前嗰啲臨時方塊已經拆走，換上 1928 年圍住前庭嘅舊翼、後面 1994 年起嘅大樓，同埋大樓天台嘅兩個直升機坪。酒店嗰架 S-76 就喺停機坪度等，準備出發做維港觀光。
1928 年嘅舊樓
兩翼米白色大樓喺前庭兩邊伸出去到梳士巴利道，中間由主樓連住。主樓有入口簷篷，門頂寫住 THE PENINSULA。外牆有高窗配山花、轉角隅石、厚身簷口同頂層閣樓，街舖係一排拱形舖面。藍白間條帆布簷篷圍住前庭同沿街外牆。前庭有酒店嘅綠色勞斯萊斯 Silver Spur，圍住噴水池泊好。（Phantom 要到 2006 年先嚟到。）
1994 年大樓
大樓喺舊樓後面升起，同樣係米白色風格。長嗰兩面中間有一條深色玻璃窗帶，頂部厚簷口下面有兩個大拱。地塊後面係同一風格嘅裙樓。大樓天台離地大約 101 米，舊樓大約 33 米。
天台直升機坪
兩個圓形綠色停機坪架喺白色圓柱上面，伸出天台邊。1 號喺西南面，2 號喺東北面。每個停機坪都有黃色著陸圈，兩邊寫住號碼，有 07t 重量限制、黃色進場虛線，邊上仲寫住 THE PENINSULA。2 號停機坪中間另外有個 H。每個停機坪邊都圍住綠白色安全網，夜晚邊沿亮起綠燈。酒店嗰架 S-76 而家泊喺 1 號停機坪，觀光完都係降返嗰度。
夜景
入夜之後成座酒店都打上金色泛光燈。兩翼同大樓啲窗亮晒燈，簷口有一排燈，前庭有車頭燈，天台仲有紅色障礙燈。
想近距離睇，可以喺主畫面揀維港直升機觀光，由 1 號停機坪出發，最後都係返到 1 號。
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