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Birmingham is set to become home to the UK’s most landlocked wave park after plans for a new £25 million facility were revealed today. The planning application lodged by Emerge Surf is for a 15-acre site, approximately seven miles to the east of Birmingham’s city center at Coleshill. Features include a 5.4-acre surf lagoon, powered […]
London will become the first capital city in the world to offer an inland wave pool. The structure will be built less than 10 miles away from London’s city center. British company The Wave plans to build a £40m project in Lee Valley Regional Park, a 10,000-acre park located northeast of Greater London, in England. The […]
Tom Morey is one of the last visionaries of the surfing world. The surfer-engineer not only invented the boogie board, but he also developed a surf pool project that was ahead of his time. Morey wanted to build his first 1.5-square-mile inland “surfatorium/surforium” water park in Hawaii. In a time when there were no smartphones, […]
America’s first Wavegarden installment is under fire. The Travis County is suing the NLand Surf Park just a few weeks prior to its opening in Austin, Texas. The county commissioners announced that the man-made wave lagoon doesn’t meet the list of requirements for public swimming pools built in Texas. “This action comes as a surprise […]
Lexus promised it, and they delivered. The world’s first rideable hoverboard has been put to the test in a skate park in Cubelles, a village outside of Barcelona, Spain. The luxury vehicle division of Toyota decided to build a brand new skate park for showcasing the full potential of their action sports gadget. The park […]
The first public Wavegarden in North America will open in Austin, Texas, in 2016. The NLand Surf Park will feature 11 surfing areas with four different surfing levels ranging from beginner to professional. The artificial wave technology will create one-foot, four-foot and perfectly tubing six-foot waves every 60 seconds. Located on a beautiful rural property […]
A medical laboratory scientist wants to overcome the irregular surfing conditions of Texas by building a surf pool in the Greater Houston area. Naradah Tisdel has a dream, and he will try to write history in the heart of Texas. The scientist-DJ has set up a crowdfunding campaign to draft the plans for a park called […]