The swaying of the water, architects said, counters the swaying of the building in an earthquake.
This one is definitely on the kooky end of the scale, with lead actor Hiroshi Abe doing what no western actor could pull off without flashbacks to Mickey Rooney-esque racelifting: he plays Lucius, the fish-out-of-water architect, with a stable of "strong-faced" Japanese actors tackling other Romans, including Emperor Hadrian.
Original plans for the dome called for a dirt floor with natural grass under a clear plastic roof; add plenty of water, the architects reasoned, and the grass would grow just fine.
As they reached the open water, Brian Capo, an architect and builder from St. James, pushed the throttle forward on his custom-painted blue-and-white 28-foot Stealth.
Hiroshima City alone has been dispatching dozens of specialists on year-long rotations — architects, water and sewage specialists, civil engineers, planners.
"The most essential elements of an onsen ryokan are its location and quality of onsen water," Hiroshi Ebisawa, an architect and designer who is a specialist in hot springs, said in an e-mail interview.
Designed by Planning Design Build of Madison, Wis., which says it is the premier architect of water parks in the country, KeyLime Cove has five water recreation areas, including a creek that winds 560 feet for floating on inner tubes.
He was nearly 90 when St Paul's was declared complete in 1711 and, as he had survived so many attacks and even attempts to oust him, perhaps criticism was simply water off an old architect's frockcoat.
"To be what most consider an island green, it should be in a lake or pond or other large body of water," said the golf architect Mike Hurdzan, a noted golf course historian and author of six books on golf architecture.
Rosenberg started Aerofarms in 2004 after spending years working to reduce water waste with the architect and environmentalist William McDonough, a gig that made Rosenberg a regular in posh do-gooder circles like those at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
