Yeah spot on. ‘Granite’ is a wide category of rock. The Vietnam memorial is also apparently granite, I just learned that today. It looks nothing like the reflecting pool, it’s much darker, almost black. The specific types of granite, maybe even the specific quarries, was chosen by each architect for it’s texture and color. Congress paid extra to keep the original granite floor while replacing everything else about it in 2009.
It will never be restored, I don’t think it’s possible. Our generation will have been the last to be able to see the original intended art piece.
Lincoln memorial pool is being painted blue for repairs. Some people think it is illegal and/or looks ugly CNN
It’s not “for repairs.” It is, itself, damage.
Yeah spot on. ‘Granite’ is a wide category of rock. The Vietnam memorial is also apparently granite, I just learned that today. It looks nothing like the reflecting pool, it’s much darker, almost black. The specific types of granite, maybe even the specific quarries, was chosen by each architect for it’s texture and color. Congress paid extra to keep the original granite floor while replacing everything else about it in 2009.
It will never be restored, I don’t think it’s possible. Our generation will have been the last to be able to see the original intended art piece.
Didn’t people paint their pools blue all the time though?
ah yes the common granite swimming pool
its not a swimming pool, paining it blue ruins the artistic intent of the structure. wouldnt expect any less from lord fuckwad
Also it will now absorb much more heat and heat the water more, likely making filtration much more complex due to changing water conditions.
My pool always gets gross the day or two after a Heatwave starts, and until I ut more chlorine tabs and algaecide, I don’t even like to be near it.
The POOL is fairly simple to get back in line.
This massive reflecting pool? Not so much. Bare minimum the whole system will need redone.