The Carbondale Aquatics Center opens to the public Saturday, May 23rd, 2026. Architecture is sometimes about architecture, and sometimes it’s not. Like this place for me, it’s more about being a place people love.   It’s also architecture but isn’t about architecture.   In the summer of 2008, while the architectural world was in free fall, I swam lunch time laps at the Carbondale Pool. I felt only a little bad about kicking out the kiddos for the hour of my lap time. My eyes burned and afterwards my hair felt like straw; and I loved it. There is a [...]