Beginning May 19, swimming will be the quickest way to go from the tenth floor of a new residential building in London to its neighbor. An acrylic skypool, with transparent sides and a floor, now spans around 14 meters between the two buildings in EcoWorld Ballymore’s Embassy Gardens, so named because of its proximity to U.S. diplomatic offices.
The 25-m-long pool has 5.5-m-long stainless steel ends atop both buildings that are linked by a 55,000-kilogram acrylic trough. With 35.6-centimeter-thick walls, the container was made in one piece by Reynolds Polymer Technology Inc. at its plant in Grand Junction, Colo.