Building a Cold Medal Pool Because of its many complex details, the Goodwill Games Pool in East Meadow, New York, is considered by some swimmers to be the best pool in the country

If you could design the perfect swimmer's body, it wouldn't be that different from the perfect building to house a swimming pool. Both would have a high strength-to-weight ratio. Both would minimize surface area-in the case of the swimmer, to reduce drag; in the case of the building, to lower heat loss and gain. Both would efficiently consumee the resources put into them. And both would be flexible.

A new natatorium in New York State embodies these ideals. The Goodwill Games Swimming and Diving Complex at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow, New York, was designed by the office of Richard Dattner Architect for the 1998 games. (Today, the pool is used for recreational swimming, training, and swim meets.) To make the opening of the games, it was imperative that the building be constructed in 18 months; the budget was set at $26 million. Although the building was designed to seat 4,000, it was unlikely that the venue would play host to such a large audience very often. "We decided that rather than overbuild to achieve such capacity," says Richard Dattner, FAIA, "we would devise a way to open up the building to increase seating capacity only when it was necessary." The construction budget would be invested, Dattner adds, in "systems that would diminish the long-term costs of operations and maintenance-things like stainless-steel ductwork-and incorporating the most up-to-date competition pool features."

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