The Columbia Country Club Swimming Pool Then and Now…

Posted: April 12th, 2020 | No Comments »

I’ve been meaning to post these pictures of the ‘refurbished’ Columbia County Club swimming pool for a year now! The old club, on Columbia Road (Panyu Lu) was a messy chemicals factory for some time – God knows what chemicals they made there – and the pool unused. It is sadly still unused as projects in mopdern China are all about limited access and what you can’t do rather than what you can so a perfectly pool is now just something to walk around past a fairly uninspiring groups of shops and cafes. Oh well, at least it’s open again…So then and then the now…Note the completely unnecessary addition of a decidedly ugly upper tier (to squeeze out a little extra rent I presume) and the over-ornamentation on the resotration of the small fountain. Nice that the original tiling work was retained though, small mercies and all that….

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