As temperatures soared in London earlier this week we all wanted to go for a dip, but none of the local facilities quite matched up to the pools that feature on our latest Pinterest board.

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Vertiginous swimming pools would cantilever like diving boards from every apartment in this tower proposed for Lima, Peru, by Mexican studio DCPP Arquitectos. More »

A collaborative proposal by Erginoglu & Çalışlar and IND [Inter.National.Design] for a swimming pool under an inverted dome at an Istanbul primary school has been shortlisted for an award at this year's World Architecture Festival, which will take place in Singapore from 3-5 October (+ slideshow). More »

Slideshow: these ridged metal walls enclose the facilities of an outdoor swimming pool that Spanish firm Arquitecturia have just completed in the town of Tortosa. More »

French architects Agence Search have completed a water-sports centre beside the Seine with a roof of undulating waves. More »

Residents plunging into the swimming pool of this Stockholm house may feel like they’re in an aquarium. More »

You can clamber down the inside walls of this ramshackle timber basin in the desert by Los Angeles designers Ball-Nogues Studio into a surprise swimming pool. More »

Stairs lead past lumpy cork-covered walls to a rooftop swimming pool at a house in the south of France by architect Raphaëlle Segond. More »

Continuing our special feature about swimming pools, here's a timber pool house with limestone walls beside a farmhouse in Surrey, England.

movie by London photographer Logan MacDougall Pope More »

Zaha Hadid's London Aquatics Centre was one of our most popular stories this month, so we've compiled a list of our top ten stories about swimming pools. More »

Architect Jean-Baptiste Bouvet has completed a hillside swimming pool that steps down to a terrace overlooking the scenic French landscape. More »

Residents at this remote Australian lodge can step straight out of bed to the side of a long narrow outdoor pool. More »

Faceted glass triangles create glowing crowns around a trio of stadiums for the World University Games currently taking place in Shenzhen. More »

Here are some more photographs of Zaha Hadid's recently completed aquatics centre for the London 2012 Olympic Games, taken by UK photographers Hufton + Crow. More »