Category: Swimming Pools
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CC photo #57: The Hajós Alfréd National Swimming Pool
The original Hajós Alfréd National Swimming Pool in Budapest, Hungary, here used as warmup pool at the 2010 European Aquatics Championships. Designed by Hajós Alfréd himself, Olympic champion from the very first Games in Athens 1896.
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Mumbai’s Floating Balcony Pools
Architect James Law designed this skyscraping residential complex called Aquaria Grande for real estate company Wadhwa Group in Mumbai, India, including a series of beautiful but I’m sure also vertigo-inducing swimming pools extending at the edge of each apartment’s balcony. They are actually building the thing, see thewadhwagroup.com. Via mymodernmet.com.
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A photo from Foro Italico this morning
Our friend John Tierney is apparently in Rome these days, and those nice Roma09 posters still hanging in that magnificent Stadio Olimpico del Nuoto. Very nice :-)
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Curl Curl
Early morning hours at Curl Curl sea pool on Sydney’s northern beaches. Soundtrack is “The Swimming Song” by Loudon Wainwright III. Love it. Curl curl from Jason Wingrove on Vimeo. Via Gold Medal Mel on Facebook.
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CC photo #54: The Shanghai Oriental Sports Center diving pool
The divers were the only ones (other than the open water swimmers out at the beach) to compete outside at the 14th FINA World Aquatics Championships – Shanghai 2011. China won all events.
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Sea pool
Short version of a documentary in production on the Australian ocean pool culture in Sydney such as the famous Bondi Icebergs swimming club. Via Gold Medal Mel on Facebook, love it!
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CC photo #51: Monterotondo ‘Stadio del Nuoto’ ready for Roma 2009
The Monterotondo municipal pool in Monterotondo was one of the four additional Roma 2009 World Championships 50 meter training facilities, and the only one indoor. I remember it as a long bus ride, but really nice because we got a break from the sun :-)
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Facility Tour – Kansas Jayhawks Swimming and Diving
Take a tour of the Jayhawks campus as well as downtown Lawrence, the student athletes academic center, strength and conditioning complex and the swimming and diving facilities. A clue: It is nice.
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BIOTOP Natural Pools use plants instead of chlorine to keep water safe
Wow, interesting (and literally very ‘green’), an Austrian company called Biotop Natural Pool uses plants to create an ecosystem where the pool is teaming with life. Pool designs have separate swimming and plant-growing areas of equal size. The plants eat the algae, which would otherwise take over. Via Mike Elgan on Google+