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"Luxurious Private Pools\nTaking a swim on a summer's day is one of life's simple pleasures. With this in mind, we dove deep into AD's archives to bring you this collection of our favorite bathing beauties\nFor a residence he designed in Rancho Santa Fe, California, architect Wallace E. Cunningham built a circular retaining wall around the property, forming an infinity pool that melts into the horizon and eliminates the sight of nearby houses. \"We masked the visual noise in the landscape and focused on its serene aspects,\" he notes. (October 2003)\n\"It's my own piece of Los Angeles,\" designer Thomas Pheasant says of the rear garden and pool area of his classically inspired contemporary residence in D.C. Although Pheasant created the poolhouse with a Palladian fa\u00E7ade, he used stucco for the walls and Spanish-style tiles for the roof. \"It's very un-Washington.\" (September 2009)\nCaptivated by Nantucket's peacefulness, a California couple traded Beverly Hills for the Massachusetts island. Across the broad lawn from their main house is an infinity pool that stretches out amid wild roses, lilacs, and indigenous grasses and looks out over 300 acres of wilderness. Peaceful? We'd say so. (June 2002)\nFashion designer and Las Vegas native Randolph Duke collaborated with decorator Tobi Tobin on the finishes and furnishings of his hillside Los Angeles residence. For the pool, they decided to channel a bit of Duke's hometown sparkle with silver-leafed tiles. (\"It was either that or a big R in rhinestones at the bottom,\" he quips.) The deck offers expansive views that stretch from Hollywood to the Pacific Ocean. (December 2007)\nArchitect Bernard Wharton, of Shope Reno Wharton, and his partner Jerry Hupy drew on vernacular buildings of South Carolina's Low Country for a client's Kiawah Island retreat. The property is on tidal marshland, amid an expanse studded with palms and live oaks, at the confluence of three rivers. The home and pool terrace sit on a series of brick piers more than 14 feet aboveground, which gives the novel feeling of living and swimming among the trees. (June 2009)\nInspired by Frank Lloyd Wright, architect Robert Attree built a hilltop Prairie-style residence in Montecito, California. Because of the mountainous terrain, one of the first priorities was to do extensive terracing. The circular pool is set on an oceanside terrace, which has an untrammeled view of the Santa Barbara harbor and the Channel Islands. (October 2001)\n\"The site was only lava and ocean,\" says architect Arthur Erickson, who collaborated with architect Nick Milkovich on the design of a home on Maui. \"The weather, the water breaking on the rocks\u2014the house was conceived to celebrate that drama.\" The infinity-edge, 132-foot-long lap pool, which is tapered to follow the angle of the site, appears to stretch all the way to the ocean. (December 2000)\nDesigner Tino Zervudachi of Mlinaric, Henry &amp;amp; Zervudachi restored and furnished jet-setting investor Nat Rothschild's house in Rio de Janeiro. On a terrace facing the sea, Zervudachi laid out what became the urbane centerpiece of the residence: a pool whose elaborate Op Art tile design echoes the wave pattern on the famous Rio promenades by Roberto Burle Marx. (February 2011)\nAt a Castle Rock, Colorado, residence, landscape architect Rosa Finsley built the pool into a swale and augmented the existing stone outcroppings with granite boulders. The quarrylike environment fits perfectly with the home's Rocky Mountain location. (June 2001)\nArchitects Claudio Bernardes and Paulo Jacobsen conceived a loftlike home in the hills above Rio de Janeiro. \"The swimming pool has an architectural and aesthetic function as well as a pleasurable one,\" notes Bernardes. \"It serves as a water mirror, and its roundness contrasts with the posts and beams, and its color with the whiteness of the structure.\" The pool's blue tile was chosen to match the hue of the distant Atlantic Ocean in the midday sun. (August 2001)\nArchitect Bart Prince dreamt up a fantastical house in Columbus, Ohio, distinguished by dynamic, flowing spaces. The owner describes the home as a place for big kids with, for instance, secret passageways hidden within the masonry walls. A 75-foot-long serpentine pool, lined with mirror-and-glass mosaics, winds its way along the lower level of the house. \"The owner wanted a lap pool running through a tropical garden, with palm trees and bananas and views of the sky,\" the architect says. \"The living spaces are arranged around that.\" (March 2001)\n\"We toned down the pool because we didn't want it to take over the scene. We wanted the river to make the impression,\" explains designer William Hodgins, who updated a 1916 house on the shores of the Potomac River near Washington, D.C. (March 2003)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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