Amenities For All

A facility that’s stunning in its clean colors and forms manages to pack many features in not much space, all while entertaining the needs of the separate destination spots

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The facility features a combination recreation pool, spa and sauna. Its bright yellow, towering figure-eight water slide is a colorful form among the surrounding blue and white hues. When the slide isn’t 

being used, its exit alcove provides a 

convenient place for private swim lessons.

Chris Roberts

The facility features a combination recreation pool, spa and sauna. Its bright yellow, towering figure-eight water slide is a colorful form among the surrounding blue and white hues. When the slide isn’t being used, its exit alcove provides a convenient place for private swim lessons.

Architects: a|r|c Architects

Aquatic Designer: Counsilman-Hunsaker

General Contractor: CE&C Inc.

Pool/Spa/Waterfeature Contractor: The Pool Co.

Landscape Architect: Nakano Associates

Structural Engineer: KPFF

Electrical Engineer: Travis Fitzmaurice & Associates

Mechanical Engineer: Stantec

This aquatics facility at the Rainier Beach Community Center is located next to the local high school, but contains amenities meant to attract everyone. The aquatics portion of the complex, built at a cost of approximately $6 million, measures 24,400 square feet and includes three bodies of water. The six-lane lap pool with 1-meter springboard and a competitive-level scoreboard help attract lap swimmers, and enable the facility to host swim meets and water polo competitions.

About the Author

Rebecca Robledo

Rebecca Robledo is deputy editor of Pool & Spa News and Aquatics International. She is an award-winning trade journalist with more than 25 years experience reporting on and editing content for the pool, spa and aquatics industries. She specializes in technical, complex or detail-oriented subject matter with an emphasis in design and construction, as well as legal and regulatory issues. For this coverage and editing, she has received numerous awards, including four Jesse H. Neal Awards, considered by many to be the “Pulitzer Prize of Trade Journalism.”

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