Pools

A medley of green tiles has also been applied mosaic-style to the hotel's swimming pool.

Featuring a reinforced concrete structure, the buildings will be covered in burnt clay brick and draw on "handcrafted vaults" that are found in architecture throughout the region.

Mexico City-based studio Rojkind Arquitectos has revealed the design for a holiday resort in Mexico's Valle de Guadalupe wine region with a curvilinear swimming pool.

The extension also includes exercise facilities and is used by both the public and local amateur and professional sports teams – including the Norwegian elite synchronised swimming team.

Bølgen Bath and Leisure Centre now has its own lap pool, diving pool, children's pool, water slide, therapy pool and baths, as well as a sauna and spa. The name Bølgen means the wave in Norwegian.

Swedish architecture studio White Arkitekter has refurbished a gym and built a new swimming pool building for Bølgen Bath and Leisure Centre in Drøbak, Norway.

On the first floor, a stairway leads from the atrium into the space above one of the circular terraces and to a split level roof that is bisected by a long, narrow pool.

Dutch studio VenhoevenCS and French practice Ateliers 2/3/4/ have unveiled the designs for a timber swimming pool complex in Paris, which will be the only permanent venue built for the 2024 Olympic Games.

CL3 was also behind some of the residential areas in the complex, including the residential clubhouse inside the Crystal skybridge itself which has a swimming pool, gym and a spa, as well as private function rooms.

The studio partially buried many of the buildings into the ground and built them with rough-hewn limestone and flint excavated from the site, as well as thatched roofs, outdoor walkways and swimming pools.

Design collective Framestudio has completed the renovation of this mid-century house near San Francisco, which was designed by architect Henry Hill in a boomerang shape around a swimming pool.

A slender, lush garden is hidden behind the walls of this long concrete house in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, designed by local firm Sommet.

Swedish design duo Folkform has installed a mural composed of over 1,000 individual glass and ceramic pieces in an indoor public swimming pool in Spånga, Stockholm.

Folkform bases ceramic tile mural on Spånga town plan.

The development also incorporates a number of sustainable designs such as water preservation, use of local materials, energy efficiency, waste management and pollution reduction. David Chipperfield's design has an elevated pool.

A white, low-slung dwelling has a rippled roofline, which Mateus designed with walls that slide open to fuse the interiors with a patio. Inside, an arched ceiling frames the pool.