Extraordinary Pools - Naina Gupta

Extraordinary Pools

By: Naina Gupta

Hardcover | 5 March 2025

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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.

About the Author

Naina Gupta is an architect with degrees from both Bangalore University 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.

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