The open sky swimming pool will only be for the private use of the residents.
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The Guardian report goes on to note that “25-metre-long pool will be completely “structure free” and made of 20cm thick glass sheets”.
The first of its kind in the world, the “sky pool” was designed by Arup Associates, though it took specialist input from aquarium designers Reynolds to come up with its unsupported design. And once you are done swimming, you can recover from your exertions on a sky deck which boasts a spa, summer bar and orangery with views of the Houses of Parliament.
The firm Eckersley O’Callaghan, known for designing Apple stores around the globe, will be engineering this project for Embassy Garden, a luxury property development.
The architectural feat will measure 90 feet long by 19 feet wide, is planned to be 10 feet deep and enveloped by strong, 8-inch glass.
If you are in London and can’t afford to swim in the “Sky Pool”, at least you’ll have something to look at.
London architects HAL are building the development, which is set to launch in 2017. “I needed to do one thing that had by no means been completed earlier than”, Mulryan stated.
Ballymore says Embassy Gardens is inspired by the buildings of New York’s Meatpacking District, with floor-to-ceiling windows and brick façades. A pool in the sky is great and everything, but it’s pointless if nobody can afford to live there.
A London-based residential building is planning something big for its rooftop: this 115-foot-high pool.
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Construction is already underway and is scheduled for completion in mid-2016, nearly a year before London’s Nine Elms development is due to be finalised.
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The pool is expected to give swimmers the feeling of “floating through the air in central London”, according to the statement.
