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 ...

From a cantilevered rooftop pool in Marbella to a brutalist home with a swim-up lagoon, here are eight houses that don't relegate swimming pools to the garden. Most of these residences are located in ...

The LA-based architectural photographer Tim Street-Porter has traveled the world for decades and while on assignment would snap pictures of swimming pools. Now he and his wife, the writer and designer ...

Exploring skateboarding in swimming pools, a series of exhibitions is opening this weekend at the Aalto2 Museum Centre in Jyväskylä, Finland. The shows zoom into the enduring – and possibly unexpected ...

A Swedish architecture firm has proposed converting the entirety of Notre Dame Cathedral’s fire-ravaged roof into a swimming pool — a radical departure from the Gothic structure’s traditional design.

Parquet in the pool! Architecture firm Claesson Koivisto Rune mimicked the pattern of the wood on this Swedish spa's deck in the neighboring pool, with superchic results. "The oversize (in comparison ...

Under its immaculate vault, soft light streams over a now silent pool. Once a temple to swimming, La Piscine de Roubaix has become an exceptional Art Deco museum in which shelter masterpieces of the ...