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Project Highlight<br />
Kennedy Town Swimming Pool opens in<br />
Hong Kong with completion of final phase<br />
Architect Farrells’ award-winning design owes its distinctive shape to the surrounding streets<br />
and historical tram line that define the triangular site.<br />
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Another view of the project from a nearby flyover.<br />
View of the indoor heated pool.<br />
Aerial view of the public swimming pool.<br />
THE SECOND and final phase of the<br />
Kennedy Town Swimming Pool, designed<br />
by Farrells, was completed in early <strong>Feb</strong>ruary<br />
this year.<br />
The project’s first phase, comprising<br />
a 50-metre outdoor pool and an outdoor<br />
leisure pool, first opened to the public in May<br />
2011. The earlier Kennedy Town Swimming<br />
Pool was demolished to make way for the<br />
construction of the MTR West Island Line.<br />
Second phase additions include a 50m x<br />
15m secondary pool, a 25m x 12.5m training<br />
pool and an oblong jacuzzi. The two pools are<br />
heated to allow the public to enjoy swimming<br />
all-year-round.<br />
With the opening of the pools, the<br />
Kennedy Town MTR station project will<br />
be completed. The original site chosen for<br />
Kennedy Town Station was the Forbes Street<br />
Playground but construction would affect a<br />
row of 120-year-old Banyan trees growing on<br />
historic stone walls so the site was re-located.<br />
The new site selected was a surface car<br />
park that enjoyed an uninterrupted sea view<br />
but had been left derelict since the land was<br />
reclaimed in the 1990s. To draw residents
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