You can walk the pier, purchase a snack and settle into a lounge chair with a good book. What you won't find at "the Beach," a temporary architectural installation at Washington's National Building Museum, is water. More pictures...
Instead, nearly 1 million recyclable translucent plastic balls simulate the surf at the 10,000-square-foot "beach" inside the museum's imposing Great Hall.
Open to "swimmers," the undulating ocean ends with a mirrored wall reflecting the exhibit's stark white seascape.
The installation is the work of Snarkitecture, an experimental firm that "investigates the unknown within architecture -- the indefinable moments created by manipulating and reinterpreting existing materials, structures and programs to spectacular effect," according to its website.
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