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Y/N Studio’s Awesome LidoLine Design Would Transform London’s Regent’s Canal into a Commuter Swim Lane

10/16/2012

Y/N Studio's Awesome LidoLine Design Encourages Londoners to Swim to Work

While we recently raved over the winning<a href="http://inhabitat.com/underground-mushroom-tunnel-wins-londons-high-line-inspired-green-design-competition/" target="_blank"> mushroom tunnel design</a> for the London High Line Competition, we can't help but give the runner up some love for their truly novel commuter swimming lane idea. <a href="http://www.ynstudio.eu/" target="_blank">Y/N Studio</a> proposed revamping the city's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regent's_Canal" target="_blank">Regent's Canal</a> into a giant swim lane called the <a href="http://ynstudio.eu/filter/Projects" target="_blank">LidoLine</a> for people to stroke their way to work. The project explores the rehabilitation of the unused 8.6 mile waterway into a clean stream for backstrokers and free-stylers alike to take a new way to the office. As for those pesky winter months, the team envisions that the frozen lane could appeal to ice skaters as well.

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Y/N Studio's Awesome LidoLine Design Encourages Londoners to Swim to Work

The Mayor of London's recent call for architects to design a <a href="http://inhabitat.com/designcompetitions/design-a-nyc-high-line-inspired-park-for-london-and-you-could-win-2500/" target="_blank">High Line-inspired space</a> saw designers scouring the city for under-used green plots.

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Y/N Studio's Awesome LidoLine Design Encourages Londoners to Swim to Work

<a href="http://www.ynstudio.eu/" target="_blank">Y/N Studio</a> took a strange yet extremely thoughtful route, focusing on the city's enormous retired canal.

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Y/N Studio's Awesome LidoLine Design Encourages Londoners to Swim to Work

The Regent's Canal runs east to west across the city of London.

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Y/N Studio's Awesome LidoLine Design Encourages Londoners to Swim to Work

The LidoLine would encourage city-wide exercise and traffic-friendly commuting.

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Y/N Studio's Awesome LidoLine Design Encourages Londoners to Swim to Work

It would also revitalize the canal's waterfront with lounge chairs, events, and corporate sponsored floating rafts and amphitheaters.

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Y/N Studio's Awesome LidoLine Design Encourages Londoners to Swim to Work

While the design didn't win, its amazing to see the new and innovative ways designers are reinventing areas with what they already have.

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Y/N Studio's Awesome LidoLine Design Encourages Londoners to Swim to Work

While we recently raved over the winning mushroom tunnel design for the London High Line Competition, we can't help but give the runner up some love for their truly novel commuter swimming lane idea. Y/N Studio proposed revamping the city's Regent's Canal into a giant swim lane called the LidoLine for people to stroke their way to work. The project explores the rehabilitation of the unused 8.6 mile waterway into a clean stream for backstrokers and free-stylers alike to take a new way to the office. As for those pesky winter months, the team envisions that the frozen lane could appeal to ice skaters as well.

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Y/N Studio's Awesome LidoLine Design Encourages Londoners to Swim to Work