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The article offers the author's insights on the significance of design and principles in building a great swimming pool. The author relates a swimming project in a French-design house in Hancock Park in Los Angeles, California, in which stresses the significance of understanding the desires of the clients. He suggests on being easy on creating visual spectacles fort swimming pools and paying attention to house, the environment, the overall layout.

The article offers information on various light patterns used in pools. It states that light patterns help to enhance and highlight the visual elements in the pool. It further states that California-based Water Studio NL executive Sean So creates bamboo sculptures that feature screens over small volumes of water flow that creates hypnotic effect and it also presents several photographs showing light patterns in pools.

The article offers the author's insight on the project at a hillside environment demonstrating the importance of the design and aesthetic elements of swimming pools. He states that the project aims to create a visual balance and an inviting and functional place. He discusses the decision making for the design and aesthetic of the tiles, the use of Tishways in conjunction with a dedicated pump, and the creation of the stairs connecting the law area and the upper deck.

The article offers the author's insights regarding the construction of a colossal pool project near a hillside with ocean view. It mentions that the landscape was dug and skinned to remove the stone surface and pool shell to build a new shape for the pool. Furthermore, Jim Pope from Mission Steel is the one responsible in installing steels as framework for the creation of the pool structure.

The article offers the author's insights on the construction project of a swimming pool project in Southern California, wherein the site contains incompetent soil layers and bedding planes. The author says that his designing and building experience taught him that such conditions take time. He mentions that they encountered a problem with the original concept of pushing the pool location away from the home when the local building development told them of an impervious surface calculation.

The author discusses aspects on the nature of art and human creativity in the U.S. He states the importance of recognizing first the art before starting to cultivate any type of artistry. He mentions that art is not always simply about beauty but in its highest forms, art provides commentary about the world often speaking to the precious thoughts and feelings about spirituality, society, love, history, sexuality and wealth.

In this article the author discusses ways on how to elevate and advance the cause of aquatic professionalism as he looked toward the future with an eye on the business side of turning water into art. He explores the three pillars that would serve as the foundations for the pool and spa industry to be more credible, dynamic and more successful which involved artistry, business and construction (ABCs). The need for the industry to strive to become something different from the rest is also tackled.