This outdoor pool weaves in and out of the stone walls of Casa Xólotl, a Mexican house that Punto Arquitectónico renovated after finding it in a state of disrepair. The water is accessed by steps down ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Simone Manuel’s Olympic win highlights the politics of access to public swimming pools. DnA visited a newly-restored pool in South LA by Lehrer Architects and finds how what the City of Los Angeles is ...

“Imagine swimming the backstroke with a view of a church vault and stained-glass windows,” says MVRDV founding partner Winy Maas. Well, soon you’ll be able to. Dutch architecture studios MVRDV and ...

As unlikely as it sounds, Brazilian architect Fernanda Marques has installed a swimming pool in the courtyard of a duplex apartment in São Paulo’s upscale residential neighbourhood of Villa Nova ...

Simone Manuel's Olympic win has put a spotlight on the history and politics of access to aquatics. Swimming in America has a history of racial exclusion. DnA visited the newly-rebuilt Central ...