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DRESSING PAVILION

Location 26 ESPLANADE WILLIAMSTOWN, HOBSONS BAY CITY File Number FOL/15/49134 Level Registered

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Statement of Significance

The Williamstown Dressing Pavilion, constructed in 1936, is architecturally significant at the state level as an extraordinarily strong dynamic and early example of European Modernism applied to the design of a pavilion structure by two then relatively unknown architects Arnold Bridge and Alan Bogle. The design wields influences emerging as a new design ethic from Europe brought back to Melbourne by young architects who translated steel, concrete and glass into a new building style. The Williamstown Dressing Pavilion is an overtly Modernist building with a design lineage reaching back to the Stijl Movement based in Holland. The Williamstown Dressing Pavilion is architecturally significant as a structure which brought a large number of people in contact with architectural modernism.