The £500m Therme Manchester development; earthworks are now beginning to define the site for the first time. The outline of the project’s central circular hub – a key feature of the design previously seen only in CGI renderings – is now clearly visible on the ground as construction progresses. Spanning a site roughly the size […]
UK Water Parks
Imagine a swimming pool, and what do you see? A slab of sterile blue water, surrounded by tiles? It doesn’t have to be like that: imagine instead a pool of fresh, clear water, fringed by native plants and visited by dragonflies. The upsurge of interest in natural swimming pools, which I introduced to this country in 2000, has convinced many owners of conventional pools to aspire to a natural one.
Water parks have been a formidable entertainment industry in the United States and are an emerging water leisure force in the UK, as Jan Hurst reports…
