ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Sat, 9 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/1020002/new-york-unveils-nycs-first-ever-floating-swimming-plus-pool-at-pier-35 Tue, 13 Aug 2024 05:30:00 +0000 Nour Fakharany https://www.archdaily.com/1020002/new-york-unveils-nycs-first-ever-floating-swimming-plus-pool-at-pier-35 Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams have just announced the installation of + POOL, a floating swimming pool equipped with an innovative water filtration system, at Pier 35 in New York’s East River this summer. Aiming to provide the New Yorkers with safe swimming opportunities in the city’s waterways, Friends of + POOL was founded in 2010 by Dong-Ping Wong, and later joined by designers Archie Lee Coates IV, Jeffrey Franklin, and Oana Stanescu. Furthermore, the project seeks to increase pool accessibility to underserved communities.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1011946/first-ever-plus-pool-to-open-in-new-york-city-this-summer-with-plans-to-expand-swimming-access-across-the-state Mon, 08 Jan 2024 06:30:00 +0000 Maria-Cristina Florian https://www.archdaily.com/1011946/first-ever-plus-pool-to-open-in-new-york-city-this-summer-with-plans-to-expand-swimming-access-across-the-state New York Governor Hochul has announced a partnership with the nonprofit Friends of + POOL to open the first urban river-sourced swimming facility in the United States. Utilizing + POOL’s design and technology, the 2,000-square-foot plus-shaped swimming pool is set to open in New York City’s East River in the summer of 2024. In 2010, four young designers, Archie Lee Coates IV, Dong-Ping Wong, Jeffrey Franklin, and Oana Stanescu, established + POOL with the goal of providing New Yorkers with access to free and safe river swimming. Now the state promised to invest $16 million to pilot and scale the system, hoping to expand it across the state of New York.

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