Public swimming pools are not typically places of solace. There’s a built-in visual and aural cacophony–gleefully shrieking, cannonballing children, chatting teenagers, parents trying to be there and ...

At the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, Australia dominated the medal table for swimming events. In the wake of the games, construction on municipal swimming holes skyrocketed, and to this day swimming ...

The LA-based architectural photographer Tim Street-Porter has traveled the world for decades and while on assignment would snap pictures of swimming pools. Now he and his wife, the writer and designer ...

London’s newest swimming pool is not for the faint of heart. The British architecture firm HAL is currently working with developers Eco World Ballymore on the 2,000-home Embassy Gardens residential ...

Vertigo-inducing swimming pools seem to be in fashion at the moment and following news of the Brooklyn Point tower's infinity pool in New York City, London now boasts its own one-of-a-kind swimming ...

The winner of the architectural competition to design the Varraku swimming pool building and surrounding area in Tallinn's Lasnamäe district has been announced. The winning design was created by ...

Summer is here, and people across the northern hemisphere are ready to hit the pool. For millennia, humans have been re-creating natural swimming holes in forms ranging from ancient baths to ...

Under its immaculate vault, soft light streams over a now silent pool. Once a temple to swimming, La Piscine de Roubaix has become an exceptional Art Deco museum in which shelter masterpieces of the ...