Pools, Baths and Lidos: Open-air Pools and Lidos

NOTES: This substantial steel-framed house on a twenty-acre sloping site was designed by Bronek Katz R. Vaughan & partners for Mr Fred Kobler, managing director of Grand Hotels (Mayfair, London). An assistant architect of the practice, John Heath, was responsible for the interior design.

NOTES: This house was built for the landscape architect Christopher Tunnard who himself designed the gardens.

NOTES: This earth-sheltered villa was designed as the family home for Alessandro Benetton, vice chairman of the Benetton Group, and his wife, Italian ski champion Deborah Compagnoni, and their children.

NOTES: The Swiss Cottage Swimming Baths and Central Library were the only completed buildings of a scheme for a civic centre in Hampstead. These baths and Coventry Central Baths, designed by Coventry City Architects Department in 1966, were the only complexes of the period to be built with three pools.

NOTES: Nertos Gutierrez Rivas is part of the Atelier La Juntana, a group of architects and artists developing architectural models in an international framework. They collaborate with many architectural pratices and have exhibited their work widely.

NOTES: A swimming pool created in the sea at the end of a one hundred-metre-long pier partly encircled by a wooden palisade housing changing rooms, benches and ramps. The wood is azobe, which is resistant to saltwater.

NOTES: A swimming pool created in the sea at the end of a one hundred-metre-long pier partly encircled by a wooden palisade housing changing rooms, benches and ramps. The wood is azobe, which is resistant to saltwater.

NOTES: The Villa Cavrois was designed by Robert Mallet-Stevens in 1929-1932 for the wealthy industrialist Paul Cavrois. Remodelled in 1947 by Pierre Barbe, it was converted into three flats. In 1985 it had fallen into disrepair and by 2001 it was a virtual ruin, when it was bought by the state for a nominal sum of 1 euro, along with part of the grounds. Since then, there has been an extensive programme to restore the house back to its original 1932 form, under the supervison of Michel Goutal, Chief Architect of the Centre des Monuments Nationaux. This was completed in 2015, when the villa was opened to the public.

NOTES: Built at Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, SS Oriana, launched in November 1959, was the last of the Orient Steam Navigation Company's ocean liners. Absorbed into P&O in 1960, she was retired from service in 1986. The naval architect was Charles F. Morris while the Design Research Unit co-cordinated the design of the public rooms.