Locked in the capital of the US and miles from the coast is Washington’s downtown beach where crowds of revelers dive into an ‘ocean’ made up of almost one million recyclable translucent plastic balls.
It’s simply called The Beach and is a partnership between the National Building Museum and Snarkitecture – a New York based studio whose work is focused on using or misusing existing architecture to perform the unexpected.
“The response to the beach has been just unlike anything we ever could have imagined. We’ve had some of these big installations in the past, but we have never had this many people come out or this much kind of attention. I think it’s been 50,000 people already in just over two weeks of being open and we will be open through Labor Day at the end of the summer,” explained Brett Rogers Vice President Marketing and Communications, National Building Museum
“The Beach” provides the quintessential summer experience transforming the museum’s monumental great hall into
