Simhallsbadet, Helsingborg
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Simhallsbadet is a swimming venue in Helsingborg
. It hosts a 25 m swimming pool, another smaller pool and a sauna.
The building was designed by Swedish
architect Mogens Mogensen and completed in 1941. The building is built in brown Helsingborg
bricks. The entrée part is build in functionalistic style
while the pool part shows a glass facade and a great cupper roof to Carl Krooks gata.
Helsingborg
Helsingborg is a city and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 97,122 inhabitants in 2010. Helsingborg is the centre of an area in the Øresund region of about 320,000 inhabitants in north-west Scania, and is Sweden's closest point to Denmark, with the Danish city...
. It hosts a 25 m swimming pool, another smaller pool and a sauna.
The building was designed by Swedish
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
architect Mogens Mogensen and completed in 1941. The building is built in brown Helsingborg
Helsingborg
Helsingborg is a city and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 97,122 inhabitants in 2010. Helsingborg is the centre of an area in the Øresund region of about 320,000 inhabitants in north-west Scania, and is Sweden's closest point to Denmark, with the Danish city...
bricks. The entrée part is build in functionalistic style
Functionalism (architecture)
Functionalism, in architecture, is the principle that architects should design a building based on the purpose of that building. This statement is less self-evident than it first appears, and is a matter of confusion and controversy within the profession, particularly in regard to modern...
while the pool part shows a glass facade and a great cupper roof to Carl Krooks gata.