Like Whoa: Philly To Swim With The Fishes?
This is like a Wes Anderson adaptation of a Mark Twain story crossed with one of Conan’s Year 2000 skits: There are plans, with funding behind them no less, for a swimming pool that would float via our city’s iconic rivers. Like a big kiddie pool, but IN THE RIVER. Of all the crackpot schemes being hatched to hijack our city’s nascent waterfront, this is certainly the boldest and most rad. If nothing else, it’s a big fat investment in fun. Now let’s get down to brass tacks:
While river pools are rare, Philadelphia’s would not be the first. In fact, the architect hired by The Heritage Area, Meta Brunzema, has already built a floating pool in Beacon, New York. It has a net-like bottom and sides that allow for the flow of water and fish. Pontoons keep it floating.
Wait, back up: Fish? Man, this party gets better by the second! How did Philly get so lucky?
The pool or pools will be located in or near depressed areas…
Well, that explains that.
September 27th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
As great as that may be, I still wish that this had become a reality:
http://ruins.wordpress.com/2007/05/30/the-playground-in-a-reservoir/
September 27th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
I don’t care how awesomely “Guggenheim in Bilbao / IM Pei pyramid at the Louvre” this shit sounds, YOU’D STILL BE SWIMMING IN THE DELAWARE!