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The Royal Commonwealth Pool is a category-A-listed building in St Leonard's,
It was also nominated in 2002 by the Architecture Heritage Society of Scotland as one of the most significant modern contributions to Scottish heritage. These sentiments were echoed in Prospect 100 best modern Scottish buildings, published in 2005.
S&P Architects were the architects and lead consultants for the 2012 refurbishment and were awarded the Scottish Design Award in 2012 for the best reuse of a listed building.
Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh officially reopens
BBC News, Retrieved 28 February 2013
Edinburgh LeisureS&P Architects
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Edinburgh
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, Scotland that houses one of Scotland's main swimming pools. It is usually referred to simply as the Commonwealth Pool and known colloquially as the 'Commie'.
History
The pool was commissioned by the Council under a plan by the then Lord Provost, Sir Herbert Archbold Brechin in 1966 as part of a wider project to bring theCommonwealth Games
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to Edinburgh. This, with the help of other committee members such as Sir John Inch, came to fruition in October 1969.
Construction began in 1967 and was completed in October 1969. The architecture was by Robert Matthew Johnson Marshall with structural input from Ove Arup & Partners.
The pool has been used for elite diving events including the 1986 Commonwealth Games hosted by Edinburgh and the 2014 Commonwealth Games
The 2014 Commonwealth Games (), officially known as the XX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Glasgow 2014 (; ), were an international multi-sport event celebrated in the tradition of the Commonwealth Games as governed by the Commonwea ...
and inaugural 2018 European Championships
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, both hosted in Glasgow.
The pool was closed 2009 to 2012 for major internal remodelling.
Architectural award nominations
In 1993 it was selected by the international conservation organisation DoCoMoMo as one of sixty key Scottish monuments of thepost-war
A post-war or postwar period is the interval immediately following the end of a war. The term usually refers to a varying period of time after World War II, which ended in 1945. A post-war period can become an interwar period or interbellum, ...
period. It was also nominated in 2002 by the Architecture Heritage Society of Scotland as one of the most significant modern contributions to Scottish heritage. These sentiments were echoed in Prospect 100 best modern Scottish buildings, published in 2005.
S&P Architects were the architects and lead consultants for the 2012 refurbishment and were awarded the Scottish Design Award in 2012 for the best reuse of a listed building.
Refurbishment
In June 2009, the pool was closed to the public to begin refurbishment. The project, led by Frank and Charlie of S&P Architects (now Space&Place Architects) began in August 2009, costing approximately £37 million, and included new diving and teaching pools as well as improvements to the changing rooms, café, reception, and the dive gym. It was originally expected to be finished by mid-2011 but did not reopen until March 2012.(20 March 2012Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh officially reopens
BBC News, Retrieved 28 February 2013
See also
*DoCoMoMo Key Scottish Monuments
DoCoMoMo Key Scottish Monuments is a list of 60 notable post-war buildings in Scotland, compiled in 1993 by the international architectural conservation organisation DoCoMoMo.
The buildings date from the period 1945–1970, and were selected by a ...
* List of Commonwealth Games venues
* List of post-war Category A listed buildings in Scotland
* Prospect 100 best modern Scottish buildings
References
External links
Edinburgh Leisure
{{Culture and leisure facilities in Edinburgh Sports venues completed in 1970 1970 establishments in Scotland Category A listed buildings in Edinburgh Listed sports venues in Scotland Sports venues in Edinburgh Swimming venues in Scotland 1970 British Commonwealth Games venues 1986 Commonwealth Games venues 2014 Commonwealth Games venues Commonwealth Games swimming venues 2018 European Aquatics Championships