La Piscine (ancienne piscine municipale, musée d'art et d'industrie)

Roubaix's municipal baths, commissioned in 1923 by mayor Jean Lebas, were built from 1927 to 1932 by the Lille architect Albert Baert. The plan, organised around a garden, draws on Cistercian abbeys, and the pool is lit by large polychrome glass roofs. The swimming pool closed in 1985 for safety reasons, and the building was then converted into a museum by Jean-Paul Philippon, opening in autumn 2001. It holds the Architecture contemporaine remarquable label (2000) but, according to the Mérimée entry, is not protected as a historic monument.

Translated from the French original.