Earlier this morning, we revealed images of Sir Nick’s $95-million 30%-water-refreshing Bronx treatment plant. Well, we revealed them in that we reported that weirdly-ahead-given-the-time-difference Building Design had revealed them (accompanied by a tiny stub of text our intrepid one extrapolated from to produce his brilliant observational brilliance.)

And we were happy to let sleeping treatments lie. Until, wandering as is our wont, we stumbled on over into the Architect’s Newspaper’s Second Life where, bleary-eyed and overwhelmed, we fell into their piece on the plant, published just today. And it’s … longer. And reported. And requires far less extrapolation and far more…. golf?

Mosholu Golf Course in the Bronx is one of a dozen run by the city’s Department of Parks and Recreation. Its compact layout is typical of New York’s urban courses—nine holes, tree-lined fairways, the odd sand bunker—save for one highly unusual obstacle: the $2.1 billion drinking water treatment facility under construction on what used to be the driving range.

Also Ken Smith—who’s surely on namedrop par with Grimshaw—did the landscaping, which is pretty huge, and similarly un-BD-ified.

So what happened here? Most of Grimshaw’s biggest work right now—the Fulton Street Transit Hub, the street furniture, the Queens Museum—is in New York. So why risk pissing off a local paper? Either a few PR heads might spin, or someone from BD’s been slipping Sir Nick an aquarium (or five).

Fore! [Architect’s Newspaper]
Grimshaw’s Deluxe Waterworks [Edificial]
Grimshaw Filters New York Water [Building Design]