☞ ARCHITECTURE: Splash House Confirmed

Congratulations are in order for the Parsons Design Workshop team of graduate students. Yesterday was the big moment when the $15,000 material cost goal was reached for the Splash House pool pavilion in Washington Heights and the team will get started at the beginning of June. The young group of designers not only had to raise the money for the project via Kickstarter but they also had to get approval from the Landmarks Commission to be able to build on the site.  Check out more on the Splash House blog to see what it took to get to this momentous point in the project: LINK.  Even though not in Harlem proper, the High Bridge pool has in the (distant) past provided a summer haven for Harlem kids when some of the pools were not so safe further south as one reader pointed out: LINK