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 Main pool of the Harold Holt Swim Centre | ||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre | |||||||||||||||
| City | Glen Iris | |||||||||||||||
| Opened | 27 November 1927 and 16 March 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| Construction cost | £10,476 (1927) $600,000 (1969) $13 million redevelopment (2010) | |||||||||||||||
| Architect(s) | Kevin Borland & Daryl Jackson | |||||||||||||||
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The Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre is a public swimming pool complex located on the corner of High Street and Edgar Street, Glen Iris, Melbourne, Australia. Built in the 1960s by Australian architects Kevin Borland and Daryl Jackson, the Swimming Centre is considered to be a fine example of Brutalist architecture.[1] Originally built in 1927 as a municipal swimming baths, the facilities were renovated in 1967 by Borland and Jackson to accommodate for higher swimming participation numbers.[2] It is named in honour of Prime Minister Harold Holt, the local member of parliament (representing the Division of Higgins) until his apparent drowning death while the facility was under construction.
- ^ "Harold Holt Swim Centre". Swimming | Diving. OnlyMelbourne. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
- ^ "Baths". Architecture in Australia: 813–818. October 1969.