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Naina Gupta

Extraordinary Pools

Naina Gupta

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English
Batsford
05 March 2025
Architectural structure & design; Social & cultural history; Swimming & diving
A visual feast of 50 weird, wonderful and architecturally astounding swimming pools from around the world.

Swimming pools are no longer simply places to swim, they are versatile sites of activity and excess. They can be vital lifelines providing communities with safe access to water, domestic symbols of affluence, and the avant-garde spectacle of hotel developers. This book, however, is a sumptuous celebration of swimming pools as playgrounds of pioneering design and architectural excess. Banish memories of crowded leisure centres and sun lounger clad lidos, these are pools designed for pleasure, not purpose.

Naina Gupta uncovers some of the most spectacular swimming pools from around the world, including Berthold Lubetkin's modernist Penguin Pool at London Zoo, the world's largest infinity pool at Marina Bay Sands, Ricardo Bofill's blood-red garden pool in Spain, and London's unparalleled Sky Pool.

Illustrated throughout with awe-inspiring colour photography, Extraordinary Pools is a mosaic of exceptional public and private pools, reasserting the protean quality of the swimming pool as a space of activity, pleasure and excess.
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Imprint:   Batsford
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 276mm,  Width: 216mm, 
ISBN:   9781849948814
ISBN 10:   184994881X
Pages:   208
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Naina Gupta is an architect with degrees from both Bangalore University and the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. She is a registered architect in India and has a decade of experience working in architectural practices. She is currently teaching at the Architectural Association while also devoting time to researching the protean quality of swimming pools around the world. She lives in London.

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