The Royal Commonwealth Pool is the only 50-metre pool / Olympic size swimming pool in Edinburgh.
Photograph - J Dewar Photography:
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Images from RMJM five images + credits above from RMJM 161008
Facilities
Separate children's pool and diving pool, gym, saunas, fitness classes, martial arts, sports instruction, massage therapies, crèche, soft play area, baby changing facilities and café.
Robert Matthew: Johnson-Marshall & Partners British Home Stores, Edinburgh David Hume Tower, Edinburgh
Edinburgh (Turnhouse) Airport, Edinburgh Lothian Regional Headquarters, Edinburgh
Royal Commonwealth Pool, Edinburgh
Wester Hailes Education Centre, Edinburgh
Stirling University, Airthrey Castle, Stirling
Robert Matthew was London County Council Chief Architect. Working for the LCC made his name and he was instrumental in creating one of the UK's key 20th century buildings, New Zealand House off Pall Mall, London. Matthew had graduated from Edinburgh College of Art and he returned to Scotland in 1953.
Robert Matthew, Johnson-Marshall & Partners - RMJM (1956-) created some key Edinburgh buildings - notably the Commonwealth Pool and the landmark David Hume Tower. The latter was striking in that it invaded a formal Georgian Square, historic University quarter.
Like another key 20th century Scottish Architect - Isi Metzstein of GK&C - Robert Matthew became Edinburgh University Professor of Architecture.
Matthew worked briefly with another Scottish great, Basil Spence, on Queen Elizabeth Square, Hutchestown, Glasgow.
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