Central Baths, Fairfax Road, Coventry: the diving platforms of the teaching pool
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| RIBApix ref no |
RIBA57147 |
| Architect/Designer | Coventry City Architects Department
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| Artist/Photographer | Toomey, Bill (1922-)
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| Country | UK: England |
| City | Coventry |
| Subject Date | 1966 |
| Image Date | 1966 |
| View | Interior |
| Style | Modern Movement |
| Medium | Photoprint |
| Library Reference | AP471/35 |
| Orientation | Portrait |
| Colour / B&W |
Black and white |
| Credit |
Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Collections
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| Notes |
NOTES:
Designed in 1956 and built in 1962-1966, these swimming baths with attached sunbathing terraces were amongst the most ambitious of those built during a short period in the 1960s when such complexes were encouraged. These baths and Swiss Cottage swimming baths, Hampstead, designed by Sir Basil Spence Bonnington & Collins and completed in 1964, were the only complexes of the period to be built with three pools.
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Subject tags
glass, steel, brickwork, swimming pools, diving boards & platforms