An outdoor ‘sky pool’ that will link two London residential buildings 10 storeys up in what its manufacturers claim will be a world first, has been built offsite and is undergoing final testing before it is shipped to the UK.
Over the past year teams of architects, engineers and consultants have been testing and developing the pool structure at a factory in Colorado.
The pool is entirely transparent, 25m long, 5m wide and 3m deep with a water depth of 1.2m. Designed by Arup Associates, with specialist input from Eckersley O’Callaghan and aquarium designers Reynolds, the experience is intended to be more akin to an aquarium than a pool.
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