Resounding Renewal

摘要

Echo Park is one of those places that has come to be defined by an all-too-familiar litany of urban woes: gangs, crime, violence, graffiti and drugs set amid aging buildings and a crumbling infrastructure. Fortunately, the community also has leadership that's working hard to change things for the better. One of the recent and most significant efforts to improve the lives of its citizenry involved renovating Echo Park Deep Pool, the area's only public swimming facility. The $6-million program involved enclosing the big pool with a new roof structure as well as rebuilding the pool's equipment pad and support facilities and attending to a host of mostly cosmetic details. Before we dive into some of the project specifics, it must be noted that the key to the project's success was cooperation on the part of the City of Los Angeles (in which Echo Park is a district), the County of Los Angeles and Frank R. Webb Architects (Los Angeles) - the best such collaboration we've ever encountered on a project of this type.