New/ Renovated Communal Showers

Lovely collection of photos you've got there. Thanks for sharing them all.
It's great to see so many modern and new shower rooms provide communal showers for men at least. The Boston racquet club renovation in 2017 seems typical of this.

I'd love to see these standard industry guidelines that say men's showers should be communal and not female.

I had a check and couldn't see anything. Sport England provide changing room guidance for all sports.
There 2000 advice makes absolutely no mention of shower cubicles. However, their 2016 guidance mentions (the scourge) of the shower cubicle. It doesn't give advice on whether clubs should have cubicles or open though.
2000 - https://www.sessay.org/images/Village-Hall/Pavilions-and-clubhouses1.pdf
2016 - https://sportengland-production-fil...e-design.pdf?xpeoo1b.2dZHV7i9pfiYWK_s3Kojxujm

(Oh and you're definitely right. Everything in the video and Nottingham gym matches up)
 
Waldringfield Sailing Club upgraded their showers in 2015. I'll let you guess which is the male shower and which is the female. :p
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This photo is from the Falmer Sports Complex at the University of Sussex in Brighton. It opened in October 2019 - so just a few months ago.

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Don't mean to correct you, but I was saying that I found the idea that men had communal showers and women had stalls pretty hot. :p:p:p

Yeah. You made a point of emphasizing how hot you find it, winkey face and all, right after in your first post claiming this is mainly not about sexual arousal to you. Which was obviously bullshit.
 
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My Y renovated the men’s plus locker room about 5 years ago and kept the open shower, but did add a stall to the side for the pussies. They sent out online surveys to the members to ask what changes they wanted to see in the renovations. I told them in no uncertain terms that I would terminate my membership immediately if they put in stalls. I guess a lot of other guys said the same thing because the open shower remained. They also opened up the change area in the locker room by removing a row of lockers that used to run down the centre of it. Thus allows guys to carry on conversations no matter where their locker is. My Y is a very social place, so this was a good idea.
 
I was looking online and found another renovated locker room. And BOY! What a delightful shower setup it is. It is located at Yerba Buena High School and was renovated in summer 2012.

They certainly didn't renovate it to increase privacy for those showering. I love too how they chose to have Bradley column showers installed.

It seems people are buying them (Though I think Bradley would stop making them if there wasn't demand).

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Does anyone know of any other showers built or renovated with these types of showers - or any other communal actually?
In my high school the showers were similar to these. The PE coach would turn on all the shower heads and march all the guys from one end, then back. During the walk everyone was expected to wash and rinse, never stopping, then to the locker rooms to get changed and back to classes.
 
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I know from previous experience that men's and women's facilities are often different, at least here in the UK. A previous gym I went to some years ago, before I moved to the town where I currently live - the men and women had to swap over for a few days every year or two, when workmen needed access to do maintenance on the facilities. Through that, I found out that the men's showers had partitions between them but no doors, so blokes walking down between the showers or using the ones opposite each other could see right in, whereas the ladies facilities all had full cubicles with bolt-able doors.

This never bothered me, but there does seem to be a general assumption that men need less privacy. Although I also have a pet theory that it's done deliberately to discourage blokes from pissing and wanking!
 
The Rossett Sports Centre in Harrogate, England has a similar setup. The locker rooms were renovated in spring 2019. Again guess which is for men and which women. :p

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Rossett Sports Centre - Changing Facilities

Great find.

I wonder if the male communal showers are in the same placement/location as the female cubicles, on the raised platform facing the changing area. The wall panels and window suggest yes - but it's very hard to tell if there is a separating wall or not...
 
Great find.

I wonder if the male communal showers are in the same placement/location as the female cubicles, on the raised platform facing the changing area. The wall panels and window suggest yes - but it's very hard to tell if there is a separating wall or not...

It's almost certainly open - been in more than one facility in the past where the showers are just an extension of the change area and you walk straight in, distinctly remember the town leisure centre being like that where i grew up back in the 90s
 
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It's almost certainly open - been in more than one facility in the past where the showers are just an extension of the change area and you walk straight in, distinctly remember the town leisure centre being like that where i grew up back in the 90s

What a great layout - wish more places had that layout.