The Carnegie Memorial Swimming Pool, a cornerstone of the local community since 1966, has been reimagined to preserve its historic essence while introducing modern amenities.

The expanded facility includes indoor pools, sauna, spa, consulting suites, café, and program rooms, housed within a re-envisioned red-brick structure – a low, lean mass, buried to feel like a single-level building rather than a “big box”. Designed to blend with its parkland and residential surroundings, the new facility integrates sustainable features and has achieved the highest Green Star design review score for an aquatic centre in Australia.

Strengthening multigenerational connections within the community has also been a big focus for the redeveloped Pool, with learn-to-swim, warm-water wellness, and interconnected outdoor spaces playing an important part in the health and wellbeing of the local community, drawing in young and old alike, and inviting them to find their favourite space to be active.

Photography: Tom Roe