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A Floating Pool Is Heading To New York City s East River Delish 4 hrs ago Danielle Harling
Feeling a little envious of those preparing to quite literally make a splash at the luxe floating pool at London s Embassy Garden? Thankfully, a floating pool of another sort is slated to open in (yes, IN!) New York City s East River within two years. The pool, which is dubbed + POOL due in part to its shape, has officially received a “confirmation to proceed with due diligence” from the City of New York and the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC).
If the unique plus sign shape of the floating pool already has you intrigued, the + POOL boasts yet another truly unique feature. According to the + POOL website, the pool is designed to filter the very river that it floats in through the walls of the pool.
Most New Yorkers would advise against bathing in the famously polluted East River. But what if a public pool could clean a small portion of it? That’s the question asked by four friends Archie Lee Coates IV and Jeff Franklin of the design firm PlayLab, and Dong-Ping Wong and Oana Stanescu of architecture firm Family when they conceived the + POOL, a floating plus-shaped public pool that filters more than 600,000 gallons of East River water daily without any chemicals or additives.
The main motivation behind launching + POOL, according to its website, is “to get into the river. The project was launched with the ambition to improve the use of the city’s natural resources by providing a clean and safe way for the public to swim in New York’s waters. Like a giant strainer dropped into the river, + POOL will filter bacteria and contaminants through concentric layers of filtration materials that make up the walls of the pool itself leaving only clean, safe, and swimmable river w
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