Piscine des Béthunes 1
Aquatic

Piscine des Béthunes

Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône

🌻Roof opens in summer for open-air swimming
🏊50-meter lanes for serious swimmers
📸Instagram-worthy brutalist design

Swim beneath a blooming concrete flower. This 1970s "Sunflower Pool" features a retractable roof that opens like a sunflower to the sky, a rare surviving example of playful French public architecture saved from demolition in 2017.

Iconic 1970s architecture
Saved from demolition
Sunflower-shaped design
Architectural heritage site
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