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Help! We’re in danger of buying a swimming pool for Navy Pier. Never mind that the pier sits on a large body of water and is located right next to a beach. The folks in charge—that’s the board of Navy Pier Inc.—voted this morning to award the pier redesign job to a New York firm, James Corner Field Operations, best-known for its High Line project, which transformed an abandoned railway viaduct in Manhattan into a mile-and-a-half-long park.