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August 7, 2013 www.watershapes.com |
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ESSENTIAL
Cutting Edges
The pools at St. Lucia’s Jade Mountain are certainly among the most ambitious watershape compositions ever attempted. In all, the mountainside project encompasses 26 interwoven vanishing-edge vessels suspended on the side of an ultra-modern concrete structure, each one with its own shape and aesthetic scheme. As Skip Phillips explains here, it was a steep challenge — one exacerbated by a remote locale and a constantly evolving design program.
This article, originally published in April 2007, has been digitized for all readers. Click here to see the full text and enlarge the images to study the craftsmanship in detail.
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PONDCRAFT 101
Pond Beginnings
Building a fish pond from a kit is a big job — one that requires you to know what you’re getting into. Offering some much-needed guidance along those lines, Eric Triplett jumps right in with an extensive video series that starts with the basics of pond design and layout. [more]
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 FEATURE ARTICLE
How Big Is That Pool?
Lots of people know how to calculate the volume of a rectangular swimming pool, but what do you do with an irregular shape? Here, Kim Skinner, Que Hales and Doug Latta describe a method for calculating those pools’ volumes that’s both precise — and a bit surprising. [more]
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WATERSHAPES WORLD
Sound and Motion
Working with Internet technology has been eye-opening, writes Jim McCloskey. In fact, as much as he loves the printed word, he’s found that the web offers so many advantages that he wonders why he stayed with WaterShapes on ink and paper for so long. [more]
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TECHNICAL BRIEFING
Balanced Force
The mathematics that define the interactions of plumbing size, water flow, pressure and head can be complex. But for watershapers, writes Steve Gutai, understanding those relationships and working with them in the field is truly essential in developing one key project phase. [more]
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TRAVELOGUE
Finding China
The features, traditions and characteristics of Chinese garden design are generally unfamiliar to most Westerners — and that’s a shame, observes Rick Anderson, who discovered in extensive travels through that country that they comprise an amazing art form all their own.[more]
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WHAT’S NEW?
Now at WaterShapes.com . . .
While supplies last, you can purchase one of 11 available complete, mint-condition, 131-issue sets of WaterShapes, a print publication that set the tone for development of the art and craft of watershaping from February 1999 until July 2011. For ordering information, click here!
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Booze May Have Been Involved!
German Cops Stop Convertible
Converted into Swimming Pool
[more]
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WATERSHAPES CLASSIC
Stone Stepping
In designing spaces for his clients, wrote Bruce Zaretsky in August 2008, he thinks about the way people will move around in them with particular care when it comes to what he sees as an often-overlooked feature. [more] |
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
Barcelona: U.S. Men’s Relay Team
Disqualified After Winning Race
Many water-related stories have been in the news of late — including reports connected to the three questions below.
1. At the 15th FINA World Championships in Barcelona, the American men’s relay team won the 4×100 race, only to be disqualified when it was determined that one of the U.S. swimmers dove into the pool one-hundredth of a second too soon. Which team member jumped the gun?
a. Ryan Lochte b. Nathan Adrian c. Kevin Cordes d. Matt Grevers
2. FINA (the governing body of the sport of swimming) has approved two mixed-gender relay events for future world championships: the 4×100-meter freestyle and the 4×100 medley. The mixed teams will consist of two men and two women; the order of the swimmers will be up to the teams themselves. FINA’s decision applies to the Olympic Games — true or false?
a. True b. False
3. The location of the 2016 European Swimming Championships — which will be held before the start of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro — has been announced. Where will the European Swimming Championships take place?
a. Amsterdam b. Paris c. London d. Madrid
To find out how many you got right, click here.
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