NYC's In-River Swimming Pool Lands $16 Million as Designers Get Into Dispute

Here's a reminder of how long radical ideas can take to execute, and what can go wrong along the way when you try to get multiple creatives on the same page. In 2010 designers Archie Lee Coates IV, Jeffrey Franklin, Oana Stanescu and Dong-Ping Wong came up with the idea to build a swimming pool in the East River of New York City. "The walls of the pool would be constructed of filtration materials," we wrote in 2011, "that would eliminate the nasties in three stages, blocking out everything...