At most residential buildings, the pool is open for a few warm months and closed for the rest. At Optima Verdana, the pool is built to last the year, considered from the first sketch rather than added at the end.

A Pool That Works in Every Season

A heated pool is a small detail that changes everything around it. It means the water is usable when the air is not warm enough to suggest a swim, which turns the pool from a summer event into a regular habit. A swim before work in the cooler months. Laps after a long day, when the deck is quiet and the village has settled into the evening around you.

When the water stays warm, the deck stays alive, and the lounge chairs, fire pits, and herb gardens remain part of the daily landscape rather than props waiting for a season.

Designed for the North Shore

On the North Shore, winter is the question every rooftop has to answer. At Optima Verdana, the rooftop lap pool is glass-enclosed and heated, with retractable walls that open to the outside air on the right kind of day and close to keep the water usable on the colder ones. The water is usable in every season, and the view above it reaches across the Wilmette treetop canopy toward the Bahá’í Temple to the north. A sun deck, fire pits, and herb gardens fill out a rooftop scaled to the quieter pace of village living, with the city still close by when you want it.

Why the Pool Becomes the Center

A pool can be the most photographed thing in a building and still not be the heart of it. What turns water into the social center of a community is everything around it, and the way those things are placed. The fire pit close enough to the lounge seating to make conversation easy. The view oriented toward the pool rather than away from it. None of that happens by accident, because the people who design the pool are the same people who design the building it sits on.

Schedule a tour at Optima Verdana and see it for yourself.