It’s the best time of year! Each summer we honor approximately 10 pools, aquatic facilities and waterparks that illustrate the industry’s highest-calibre skills in design and engineering — and listening to the client’s needs — resulting in that perfect balance of aesthetic beauty, utility and responsiveness.
This year is no exception, with a strong representation by family aquatic centers and renovations. Enjoy witnessing the ingenuity that enables this industry’s premier designers to devise custom strategies for delivering the joys and therapies water offers in a way that makes most sense to its unique usership.
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Take a Sneak Peek at Our First 2024 Dream Designs Honoree: Mississippi’s Serengeti Springs
The entire roster rolls out in coming weeks, but this Hattiesburg, Miss. waterpark provides a taste.
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Romeoville Aquatic Center of Illinois Recognized as Dream Design
This facility introduced a number of firsts to the community, equipping it with a site to host an eclectic array of activities set against a whimsically stylish backdrop.
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Roaring Springs Waterpark of Idaho Takes Dream Designs Honor
This facility introduced a number of firsts to the community, equipping it with a site to host an eclectic array of activities set against a whimsically stylish backdrop.
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Nebraska’s Gretna Crossing Joins Dream Designs Slate
This property includes the features needed to accommodate three owners, along with special touches to support the local schools and honor a namesake city.
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Camp Barnabas of Missouri Featured Among Dream Designs Honorees
A single pool features an open layout with clear zoning markers, so campers of all physical abilities and stimulus sensitivities can feel safe yet included.
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Wichita’s Harvest Park Pool Makes Dream Designs Ranking
These designers used every element at their disposal to gracefully introduce curves that soften the existing pool’s rigid lines without clashing.
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Dream Designs Honor Awarded to Cancun’s Aqua Nick Riviera Maya
At this, one of Mexico's largest Nickelodeon-themed waterparks, visitors can see some of their favorite characters and even enjoy a sliming.
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Merriam Community Center in Kansas Awarded Dream Design Title
Faced with community members attached to the old pool, these designers presented more amenities with modern touches to satisfy a broad swath of users.
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Blast Off Bay Waterpark in Kansas Listed as Dream Design
Inspired by the town's aeronautics history, these designers imparted an air- and space-travel theme on a facility meant to contain pursuits both playful and serious.
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Oregon’s Echo Hollow Earns Dream Designs Honor
Tradition meets modernity at this updated community institution, whose new design juggles respect for the original architcture and a desire to move forward.
