Category: Swimming Pools
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Into the Water- Teaching swimmers at the Richmond Aquatics Partnership
See Greater Richmond Aquatic Partnership
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Kilian Martin skating around the defunct Lake Dolores Waterpark
A beautiful movie from a sad site, the late Lake Dolores Waterpark. Via YouTube on Google+
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Ouch, London Aquatics Centre architect Zaha Hadid not invited to the 2012 Games
Zaha Hadid, the architect who created the £269 million London 2010 Olympic Aquatics Centre has criticised “rude†Games bosses for not inviting her to a single event. “When you’ve designed a building like this you want to see how it’s used.†Read more here on Architizer and This Is London.
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Leading architects surveying the London 2012 Olympic Park
Leading architects Amanda Levete and Piers Gough and critic Charles Jencks give their verdict on the key venues of the London Olympic site. They are blown away by the beauty of the Aquatics Centre and the Velodrome – but left deeply underwhelmed by the main stadium. Read more here on The Guardian.
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The Bondi Iceberg Opening Ceremony (in super slow motion)
The opening of the winter swimming season at Bondi Icebergs Swimming Club, captured with Epic at 100fps & Weisscam at 1000fps. Wow.
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A New Aquatics Facility For UCSB Athletics
Already one of the top academic institutes in the US, University of California, Santa Barbara is also aiming to raise the bar of its athletic campus, beginning with a new $9.5 million aquatics facility, “A place for champions”. Standing applause here.
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Bondi Icebergs
In 1996, Southern Cross Project were commissioned by John Singleton and Andrew Griffin to build the “new†Icebergs. 15 years later, the Icebergs is a Sydney icon.”The easiest swimming club in the world to join and the hardest to remain a member.”
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A vertigo-inducing swimming pool in Mumbai
This eye-catching swimming pool at Bhakti Park in Mumbai, India has a giant aerial photograph of the New York City skyline attached to the floor of the pool, to raise awareness about the threat of sea level rises as a result of global warming. Read The Laughing Bug. Source: Uploaded by user via Parastou on…
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What makes a swimming pool fast ?
Interesting story here on The Brown Daily Herald, with Brown Bears’ head coach Peter Brown describing what makes the new Katherine Moran Coleman Center swimming pool the fastest aquatic center in the Ivy League and in the Northeast. (Ehm, vaguely related video) “Fast pools have specific characteristics, and if you don’t have those, you’re going…