It is a lap of luxury – and terror.
The world’s first “floating” pool – a glass-bottomed basin located 115 feet above the road – is due to open in London.
Sky Pool, which has reportedly gone through a “comprehensive power test” to ensure that it does not crash into the street, will open on 19 May at the luxury Embassy Garden apartment complex in south-west London, property developers Ballymore announced.
Ballymore said in a news release, the transparent, temporary construction is about 82 feet long – 46 of those feet above the road that connect the two towers of the complex.
“The swimming pool’s 14-meter-long transparent acrylic structure has been lifted 10 stories up into the air and installed in its steel frame, which extends into Embassy Garden’s legacy buildings,” the release stated.
“The location and transparency of this ‘floating’ pool will give the Embassy’s Garden residents an extraordinary experience of swimming 35 meters up in the sky while swimming and watching the land and capital from the water.”
The special facility will only be available to residents and guests of the building, where the two-bedroom apartment is valued at approximately $ 1.4 million, CNBC reported.
In addition to the pool, the buildings’ sky deck features a spa, summer bar and orangery – a greenhouse where orange trees grow.
The structure, called “the largest single piece of load-bearing acrylic in the world,” works for many years and was built in a Colorado factory.
Ballymore said it was transported more than 1,000 miles away by truck to Galveston, Texas, where it was loaded onto the ship for a three-week voyage, Balmore said.
The developers said that the pool was then removed by a 50-ton crane.
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