Shanghai – Worrying Future for 102 Canton Road

the other day I mentioned the uncertain and (given the destruction of architectural heritage without a second thought in Shanghai for years now) concerns over the future of the old Race Club building (later Shanghai library, later still Shanghai Museum of Modern Art) on Nanjing West Road (formerly Bubbling Well road).

Now another lovely building faces an uncertain and equally worrying future – Wang Xiaofei, the CEO of South Beauty Group (restaurants all over Shanghai), has confirmed that the group has sold the Lan Club, a beautiful four storey corner building at 102 Guangdong Road (formerly Canton Road).

The club is now gone and there is no news as to what any new owners might want to do – three corners of the Canton Road junction are old buildings though the south east corner was torn down ages ago ruining the perspective.