What should be a moment of well-being sometimes turns into a nightmare. The location? A municipal swimming pool, a space you might frequent regularly to swim, relax, and move without pressure. The ...

This story about swimming in Paris is part of How Paris Moves, a series of dispatches about communities and social change in France through the lens of the 2024 Summer Olympics. It’s another Friday ...

In 2019, several years before Olympic athletes dove into the Seine, a group of friends sought a place to swim in Metz, three hours east of Paris. Summers were getting hotter, and most municipal pools ...

Paris has launched an urgent hunt for spy cameras and peepholes in the city’s public swimming pool changing rooms following a spate of complaints from women about men trying to film them. The action ...

St. Francis of Assisi Church in Heerlen, the Netherlands, has been vacant since 2023. The architects imagine it with a new social function. (Courtesy MVRDV) St. Francis of Assisi Church has been ...

ASHEVILLE - Only one city owned public pool will open in Asheville this summer. The Malvern Hills Park pool remains shuttered following last year's closure and Recreation Park pool saw "catastrophic ...

The dog days of summer are finally behind us, but I’m still burned by the memory of this year’s heat. Summers in Massachusetts are becoming hotter and muggier, to the extent where even the ...