Melissa Higgs, an architect at HCMA, pitches an unsolicited concept for a harbour bath in Vancouver through the firm’s Tilt Curiosity Labs initiative. She surveys Scandinavian precedents — Copenhagen’s Islands Brygge, projects in Aarhus and Oslo — where cleaned-up harbours became swimming and gathering spaces, then presents a proposed “Coal Harbour deck” with swim lanes, a diving platform, and performance space.
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