Leslie Gooday

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(1921–2013) was a British architect.

Biography

Gooday was born in the former Croydon registration district of Surrey on 14 June 1921. Elected to the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1951, he assisted Hugh Casson in designing the boating-pool and leisure area at the 1951

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on London's

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. He designed, in 1961, the

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''Richmond Baths'', now known as

Pools on the Park Pools on the Park (previously known as Richmond Baths) is a Grade II listed swimming pool and leisure facility in Old Deer Park in Richmond, London. Construction on the site started in 1964 and was completed in 1966; the architect was Leslie ...

, a swimming pool and leisure facility in

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in Richmond, London. Completed in 1966, it received a Civic Trust award in 1967 and is recognised by Historic England as illustrating "the more ambitious use of glazed curtain walling and the post-Wolfenden ReportThe Wolfenden Report referred to in this instance is that of the Committee on Sport & the Community, chaired by

John Wolfenden John Frederick Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden, CBE (26 June 1906, Swindon, Wiltshire – 18 January 1985, Guildford, Surrey) was a British educationalist probably best remembered for chairing the Wolfenden Committee whose report, recommending the dec ...

, whose report, commissioned by the Central Council of Physical Recreation, reported in 1960. emphasis on providing large banks of spectator seating". His architectural practice, Leslie Gooday & Associates, based in East Molesey, Gooday's death is listed at the end of the article.

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, was appointed in 1967 to design the British pavilion at the Japan World Exposition at Osaka in 1970. In 1956 he designed two houses in post-war modernism in Ham Farm Road,

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which were cited by Nikolaus Pevsner as representative of the "quiet elegance of the modern style of the fifties". He also designed houses in other parts of the

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, the London Borough of Croydon, Surrey and

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. The Bosphorus House in Kippington Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, that he designed in the 1960s, was described in the local volume of '' The Buildings of England'' in 1983 as "ingenious". He made alterations to the Latter-day Saint church building in

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, London, in 1979–80.Cherry and Pevsner, p.664 He died on 16 March 2013.

Personal homes

Gooday designed the two homes in which he lived successively with his wife Rosemary and children: *36 West Temple Sheen, East Sheen, London *''Longwall'' (built 1964–66)

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, Weybridge, Surrey – described in its statutory listing in the initial (Grade II) category as "perhaps his most successful work".

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gooday, Leslie 1921 births 2013 deaths 20th-century English architects Architects from London Officers of the Order of the British Empire People from the London Borough of Croydon 21st-century English architects