A 25m swimming pool linking the tops of two 10-storey towers is to be built in London.
The pool, nicknamed “Sky Pool”, has been described as a world first and will feature a transparent bottom.
It will allow swimmers to peer down on passers-by from a height of 35m.
Eckersley O’Callaghan, the firm which has worked with Apple on the design of its stores around the world, will engineer the project.
The pool is part of a luxury property development called Embassy Gardens at Nine Elms, near Battersea power station.
It’s hoped that it will be complete by the summer of 2019, but the concept does not come without challenges – especially given that the pool will be subject to forces exerted on it by the two adjacent buildings, which have been constructed on separate foundations.
via BBC News
August 21, 2015
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