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       London't Sky Pool
   DIR By: Mac
       Date: August 20, 2015, 2:04 pm
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       [glow=red,2,300]London's Sky Pool at Embassy Gardens[/glow]
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       > Developers in London are building what they claim is the
       world's first "sky pool" — a 25-meter-long swimming pool
       suspended 10 stories in the air between two blocks of luxury
       flats. The transparent pool at Embassy Gardens will be three
       meters deep with a water depth of 1.2 meters, and will be
       constructed with the help of aquarium designers using
       20-cm-thick glass. The pool will allow residents to swim between
       the development's roof-top bar, spa, and orangery (a walkway
       will be available as well), with prices for apartments and
       penthouses in the complex starting at £602,000 ($942,572).
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       > ""It will feel like floating through the air in central
       London.""
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       > "My vision for the sky pool stemmed from a desire to push the
       boundaries in the capability of construction and engineering. I
       wanted to do something that had never been done before," said
       Sean Mulryan, chairman and CEO of the Ballymore Group, the
       project's developers. "The experience of the pool will be truly
       unique, it will feel like floating through the air in central
       London."
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       > Although the sky pool is certainly architecturally striking,
       the project can also be seen as symbolic of London's housing
       problems, with developers in the city often promising to build
       affordable homes in central areas only to focus on luxury
       apartments instead. Embassy Gardens itself is part of the larger
       Nine Elms development in southwest London, which is intended to
       regenerate the inner-city district of Battersea. Instead, say
       critics, homes in the $23 billion development are being marketed
       primarily to wealthy buyers in Asia and the Middle East, with
       locals simply priced out of the market.
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       Re: London't Sky Pool
   DIR By: Chiprocks1
       Date: August 20, 2015, 2:29 pm
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       Yeah, I saw this on CNN this morning. Crazy......crazy cool that
       is.
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