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Hypnotic: The first transparent pool of its kind hangs over London

A new luxury residential project in London this week inaugurated the Sky Pool A spectacular and transparent pool that hangs in the air between two towers.

How was it built and are there similar pools in Israel as well?

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Monday, 07 June 2021, 14:00 Updated: 14:25

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London's familiar skyline has recently received a significant upgrade with the inauguration of a new luxury building complex whose two parts are connected by a Sky Pool - a first-of-its-kind transparent pool, like a 10-story water bridge over the city.

The pool, is part of a prestigious residential project called Embassy Gardens and it connects the two towers that make it up.

It is made of a transparent polymer and is 25 meters long and stretches in the air between heaven and earth and also creates a spectacular, almost mesmerizing show that sometimes looks like an acrobatic show of man and architecture to passers-by, passers-by on the street and tenants in neighboring buildings.

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"Anyone who swims in a pool feels hovering in the air."

The new sky pool at the Embassy Gardens project in London (Photo: AP)

The pool itself was engineered and manufactured in Colorado USA after four years of planning and construction, and from there embarked on a long and logistically challenging journey until it reached its permanent home in the heart of the English capital. “The idea of ​​the pool stood out above all and we thought it was very special. Only thanks to the development of technology have we been able to implement it. Swimming in this pool makes people feel like they are floating in the air, "said Sean Mullarian, CEO of the Balimor Group that built the real estate project where the pool was installed, in an interview with the New York Times.

The new sky pool at the Embassy Gardens project not only contributes to the southwestern landscape. London but also interacts with it. Visitors to the pool can overlook the US Embassy building (the proximity of which gave the project its name - "Embassy Gardens") located in the neighborhood as well as the River Thames and the central London skyline.

Interesting interactions with the cityscape of London. View from the street to the new sky pool in London (Photo: AP)

But the inauguration of the prestigious residential complex and its attractive pool did not pass without hitting waves of dissatisfaction and criticism among some of the public in London and in general. The use of the pool is limited to the residents of the prestigious complex and their guests only, but not all the residents of the embassy gardens were born equal. The neighborhood where the project is located is a renewable neighborhood, and like other London-approved projects, developers have been required by the local authority to allocate a certain percentage of the apartments in it to affordable housing for incapacitated tenants.

In the case of this project, 260 apartments out of 1,500 have been allocated for the benefit of rent to the less able, and these tenants do not have access to the pool as well as some of the other facilities in the complex. According to the company that manages the residential complex, the reason is that they are also not required to pay the monthly amount required for the maintenance and operation of these facilities, which is paid for by the other tenants in the complex. The prices of regular apartments in the luxury complex start at £ 635,000, which is about NIS 2.9 million.

There is also "affordable housing" in the project, but it does not include a pool subscription.

Bathing in the London sky pool (Photo: AP)

The contractor company that built the project stated that their unique pool is the first of its kind in the world.

A pool of this size that all hangs in the air and is visible from all sides is indeed a novelty and is the symbol of the new status in the field of pools, after the infinity pools have apparently become too generic for the rich and eye-popping.

Although single-walled pools have already been built in a number of places around the world, mostly in luxury resorts.

Sometimes you can see it in the morning traffic jams.

Pool with a transparent wall in the HOST events complex on the roof of the Indigo Hotel in Ramat Gan (Photo: HOST Events Complex)

Meanwhile, in Israel there are no pools whose sides are all transparent, but only pools with one transparent wall.

Most often, these pools will be located on the roof of a tall building or tower, which overlooks a spectacular view.

One of these can be found in the events complex located on the roof of the Indigo Hotel in the stock exchange area in Ramat Gan.

Those who make sure to stand in traffic jams in Ayalon between the Halacha Bridge and Arlozorov can alleviate his boredom in traffic jams by looking up and seeing its blue square in the top of the cluster of towers and perhaps fantasizing about the day when a transparent sky pool stretches between the geometric shapes of Azrieli Towers

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