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20th Dec 2016

A Glass Bottomed Pool Is To Be Built 10 Stories Above London

Dylan Varian

A glass “sky pool” is planned to be suspended between apartment blocks in London’s new Nine Elms quarter. The 25-metre-long pool will link two blocks of apartments that form part of the 2,000-home Embassy Gardens development.

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At five metres wide and three metres deep, the pool will allow residents to swim between the two buildings while enjoying views of London through the pool’s completely transparent 20-centimetre glass casing.

This looks pretty awesome. Would you be willing to swim here? Let’s just hope there isn’t a leak.

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