Standing at 188 Machang Avenue, Hexi District, the former Tianjin Race Club is now the heritage site under city protection and the special protection historic architecture in Tianjin and is used as a business building. It was built in 1925 and has a floor area of some 8000 square meters.
As was designed by British Hemmings & Parkin Ltd., it was also known as New British Club. Equipped with theatre, dance hall, indoor swimming pool, pingpang room, bowling alley and library, the club was exclusive to foreigners and the upper crust. After the Pacific War broke out in 1941, the Japanese invaders took it over and renamed it as International Club. And after Japan's surrender in 1945, it fell into American's hand and was changed into Armed Forces Officer's Club.
Featured a simple red brick facade with a perfect symmetry and beautiful interior decorations, the facilities in this two-storied building topped its kind in Tianjin at that time. Located inside the race ground in the British concession featured a beautiful garden landscape, the building epitomized British pastoral style.
