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Competition design for additional office and library space for the Royal Institute of British Architects, 66 Portland Place, London: sketched perspective, plan, elevations and section of a tower featuring solar panels and radio antennae
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NOTES: This design, titled 'Pericles' by an unidentified architect, features a small 'temple' structure (intended to house the RIBA president) surmounting a column-shaped tower which is shown emerging from behind the eroded facade of the RIBA's existing headquarters building (designed by George Grey Wornum in 1934). The design also features a water cascade, swimming pool and bandstand.
Design for swimming bath in Knaresborough, Yorkshire
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NOTES: This image is a photograph of an original drawing.
Design for Wellington Street baths, Leeds
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NOTES: This image is a photograph of an original drawing.
Swiss Cottage Swimming Baths and Central Library, Hampstead, London
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NOTES: The Swiss Cottage Swimming Baths and Central Library opened in 1964 but the council chamber and administration buildings included in the original masterplan for Hampstead Civic Centre were abandoned in 1966 with the reorganization of local government in London.
Swiss Cottage Swimming Baths, Hampstead, London: the sun terrace with sculptural reliefs by William Mitchell
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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.