Onto the Water

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Leça Swimming Pools, Leça de Palmeira, Portugal, 1966 designed by Alvaro Siza

By sinking the building behind the road Siza promotes a disconnect between his pools and the infrastructure of the city.  He is also considerate of the ocean views from the roadway. Siza was careful to preserve a large portion of the existing rock formations when planning his modern interventions into the landscape. The pools he created reach out into the ocean and blend easily with the natural pool formations along the coast of the Atlantic. -- ArchDaily

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Copenhagen Harbour Bath, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2003 designed by BIG/PLOT, JDS

The Harbour Bath design has emerged out of the desire of extending the surrounding park onto the water and the practical needs for accessibility, safety and programmatic demand. The Harbour Bath realises the transition from land to water as a terassed landscape. -- architect's web site

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Kastrup Sea Bath, Kastrup, Denmark, 2004 designed by White arkitekter AB

Reaching out into the Øresund from Kastrup Strandpark in Kastrup, Kastrup Sea Bath forms a living and integral part of the new sea front.

The project consists of the main building on the water, the new beach and an ajoining service building with lavatories and a handicap changing room. -- ArchDaily

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Public Swimming Pool, New York City, New York, USA

In New York the most obvious example of crowd-funded urbanism is the public swimming pool floating in the Hudson River. So many New Yorkers (and not New Yorkers) liked the idea so much that they wanted to be part of the process of making it possible. And now it’s there, thanks to the 41,647 dollar that was collected by 1,203 backers at Kickstarter. -- The Pop-Up City

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Badeschiff, Berlin, Germany, 2013 designed by Wilk-Salinas Architekten

The winter-roofs base area is limited to the existing arrangement and consists of three lengthwise airy  parts of a structure constructed with membrans, which are divorcing the interior into three functional areas: lounge, sauna- area and finally the pool ship. These areas are connected via added boxes where the sanitarian  rooms are included. -- ArchDaily

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The Building on the Water, Huai’an, Jiangsu, China, 2014 designed by Álvaro Siza + Carlos Castanheira

Meticulously built in white exposed concrete, the building’s pristine curvilinear form measures over 300m in length, comprising two levels above water and a total built floor area of approximately 11,000 sqm. As if evoking a life-like dragon, elegantly poised over water, the contours of this building gently undulates. -- ArchDaily