Watershaping mastery reveals itself in many different guises, from the ultra-elaborate and complex to the relatively simple and sublime. The Santa Monica project by Kevin Cobabe pictured here fell into both categories, with a visually simplistic design that featured a host of fine details and precise construction.
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In Horseshoe Bay, Texas, Southern Living Pools and the shotcrete specialists at Texan Gunite faced an unusual challenge: constructing a large, curvilinear watershape with most of its structure suspended directly above Lake LBJ. The ASA award-winning Yates Project demanded months of coordination, careful logistics, and precise dry-mix shotcrete placement to transform an ambitious lakeside vision into concrete reality.
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New research reveals that fog is far more than suspended water droplets. It is a temporary aquatic world filled with microbial life that may help cleanse the atmosphere, influence climate, and even affect human health. In a very real way, fog is, in fact, alive!
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The health and safety of public aquatic facilities rests on a complex foundation of science, engineering, operations, and human behavior. At the center of that effort is the Model Aquatic Health Code (MAHC), a living document that has become the most influential guidance resource for aquatic facilities across the United States.
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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as California reinvented itself as a land of health, leisure, and spectacle, a new aquatic building type emerged along its coastlines and growing inland cities: the plunge. In a time before the emergence of the backyard pool industry, the plunges were grand civic destinations, often enclosed, frequently ornate, and almost always tied to broader visions of social life and economic development.
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Far below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, beyond the reach of wind and waves, a vast and patient machinery is at work. It does not roar or churn in ways we can easily see, yet it moves heat, salt, carbon, and life itself across the southern and northern hemispheres. Known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, it is one of Earth’s most consequential natural systems. It is also one of its most vulnerable.
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Control technology for swimming pools has come a long way since the days of the mechanical timeclock. From the simple on/off function of yesteryear, to the sophisticated multi-faceted automated control of today, manufacturers continue to push the envelope of functionality and integration.
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Although they’ve been around for decades, waterparks remain a dynamic and innovative industry focused on delivering a spectrum of aquatic experiences to consumers of all ages. After more than 25 years in the business, Craig Nielsen has had a front-row seat to the evolution, and he’s says with confidence, waterparks are only at the beginning.
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There is no place quite the like the sewers of Paris. Beginning with the very notion that a sewer could be the subject of wonder and fascination is counterintuitive, but when you take the trip below the streets, what watershaping mastery is both surprising and inspiring.
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Finding the Rescue: A Life in Water, Science, and Spirit