Sky Pool: suspended pool in London

Now you can admire London from the water and from a height of 35 m.

Evgeny Ionov

Architectural studio HAL designed a swimming pool at a height of 35 m above the ground, overlooking the “London Eye» and Westminster. A 15 m long swimming pool connects the roofs of two neighboring buildings.

Simon Kennedy

The authors of the project wanted to create a completely transparent structure and at the same time maintain a “simple design”. To do this, the studio turned to Reynolds Polymer, which designed an underwater restaurant in Norway, a waterfall at Singapore’s Changi Airport, as well as the world’s largest cylindrical aquarium AquaDom in Berlin.

Simon Kennedy

As a result, high-tech acrylic panels were used to create the pool, which are most often found in aquariums capable of containing large volumes of water. The thickness of the bottom plate of the pool is 360 mm, and the walls are 180 mm. And although wind, temperature, water and many other factors affect the Sky Pool, the structure easily copes with loads thanks to steel end elements.

Simon Kennedy

Also, the pool was equipped with a special backlight, which works in five modes. Guests of the Embassy Gardens Apart-Hotel can swim over London.

Simon Kennedy

Photo: Simon Kennedy

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