The Swiss Architecture Museum currently features a summer exhibition on urban river swimming in Basel, Bern, Zurich and Geneva. It looks at the historic development of river swimming and lets visitors experience these four cities from the perspective of a swimmer through an immersive film installation.
‘Swim CityExternal link‘ also looks at contemporary river-swimming projects from Europe and the US, such as ‘Flussbad’ in Berlin, ‘POOL IS COOL’ from Brussels, ‘Thames Baths’ in London, ‘Ilot Vert’ in Paris, ‘Charles River Swimming Initiative’ in Boston and ‘+POOL’ in New York. (S AM Swiss Architecture Museum)
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The Swiss woman who made a splash in Boston
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Swiss architect Renata von Tscharner wants to bring open water swimming to the Charles River in Massachusetts.
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Leaping into summer
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There are more than 500 outdoor and natural swimming pools in Switzerland. For many of them, the summer season has begun.
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Until the 1950s, waste was dumped directly into Swiss rivers and lakes, resulting in dying fish, bad smells and swimming bans. Much has changed.
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