Insight, Swimming Pool Design
Valley’s Coolest Pool Designer
August 14, 2011, Author: bianchi
Published in
Phoenix Magazine, March 2008
For decades, residents have spent most of the valley’s hot summers wading in ordinary homemade ponds called swimming pools. “What a travesty,” pool designer, Kirk Bianchi says, “These could be sacred pools.”
After studying architecture at Arizona State University in the late 80’s, and after reading about an ex-fisherman who was creating custom water features and swimming pools, Bianchi fell in love with the idea. So he went to work for him and gave up the suit-and-tie gig completely. Now he makes pool design a higher form of art – from reflective pools fed by serene fountains to raised 360-degree vanishing-edge swimming pools with sleek handrails.
“My niche is the fusion of the three disciplines- Pools, landscapes, and exterior architecture, for the ultimate fusion of outdoor lifestyle design,” Bianchi says.
For decades, residents have spent most of the valley’s hot summers wading in ordinary homemade ponds called swimming pools. “What a travesty,” pool designer, Kirk Bianchi says, “These could be sacred pools.”
After studying architecture at Arizona State University in the late 80’s, and after reading about an ex-fisherman who was creating custom water features and swimming pools, Bianchi fell in love with the idea. So he went to work for him and gave up the suit-and-tie gig completely. Now he makes pool design a higher form of art – from reflective pools fed by serene fountains to raised 360-degree vanishing-edge swimming pools with sleek handrails.
“My niche is the fusion of the three disciplines- Pools, landscapes, and exterior architecture, for the ultimate fusion of outdoor lifestyle design,” Bianchi says.