Register of modern architecture in Slovakia

Modernism Revisited 2026: International Conference on Architecture and Cultural Heritage Architektúra povojnového modernizmu na Slovensku: identifikácia, hodnotenie a ochrana Reissue of the publication Bratislava – Atlas of Mass Housing

Covered swimming pool in Žilina

original function
Šport
current function
sport
address
Vysokoškolákov 8, Žilina, Žilinský kraj
architects
Cimmermann Anton, Cimmermannová Gabriela
project
1960 – 1963
implementation
1963
status
existing

One of the first modern indoor swimming pools in Slovakia. The exterior architectural treatment still shows the traces of the 1950s. However, the internal arrangement is rationally functionalist and the pool area carries a typical relaxed character of the next decade architecture. Dressing rooms and visitors lockers are to the right of the entrance and divided (men-women) on the ground floor and the first floor. The south openable glazed wall leads to the terrace and to the area where outdoor swimming pools were planned. The building was renovated in 1997.

Bibliography:

Stuchl, A.: Plaváreň v Žiline. Projekt 3, 1961, č. 3, s. 54 - 55.

Šavlík, M.: Krytá plaváreň v Žiline. Projekt 6, 1964, č. 1, s. 13 - 16.

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