The sky pool

It's just like adding a bridge between two buildings -- a very heavy bridge, but the anchoring buildings can take it.

I hope it is not in earthquake country, though.

Is this a design concept, or a reality? Details please.

It's a concept -- but doable -- most of the support would be on anchors atop each roof, not visible in the photo.

You'd also need a ribbed bottom, to minimize the vibration from sloshing,

As pictured this would never be built because there is no way for people to get out at the sides which is necessary for safety.

The access to the pool would be at the unseen anchor points.

Still need to be able to get out at the sides. So inkers their are fairly wide side walkways with railing, this would never be built

[quote] So inkers their are fairly wide side walkways with railing

What?

Cannonball!

Just because something CAN be built, doesn't mean it SHOULD be built

It's a swimming pool, not a death machine, r9.

It would need braces beneath each lower edge to compensate for thermal deflections, but the bottom would still be mostly clear to view the down below.

Sorry. I should have linked to an article as well. It's an apartment complex currently under construction in London, due to open in 2018.

It looks ugly.

David Hockney updated for the 21st century.

See how the pool is anchored on the roof?

Also, since it is London, no need for earthquake or thermal braces.

Isn't it usually too cold to swim outdoors in London?

If they heated the water, the condensate would drip on the people walking below

Why not more love for sky pool?

I'm digging it. It would certainly be an experience every time one goes for a swim. Solar might be an option for heating the pool at certain times of the year. However, considering London's overall weather conditions, it doesn't seem very practical for this design concept.

I like it because it can be appreciated at ground level and in the pool, but limited functionally in London.

That's just begging for a kid with a BB gun.

^ bullet-proof fibre glass as materials, per chance?

I would think it was pexiglass

I haven't forgotten the sky pool

The problem with sky bridges of any sort is sinkage or shitifting on one side or another.

We worked on such a project here in Honolulu where both towers are linked by a set of sky apartments.

I wouldn't buy into a project like that for love or money.

Yes, it's pixie gas.

What a craptastrophe waiting to happen. Jeebus.

[quote]The problem with sky bridges of any sort is sinkage or shifting on one side or another.

A series of self adjusting pool support and leveling struts would fix that -- but the struts would probably cost more than the pool.

Apart from the prohibitive cost of anchoring this monstrosity in the sky, the constant weight from deflections onto the main structures would create significant structural pressure which could eventually lead to failure of some part.

Leaving that aside, I personally - as much as I love London - would not want to step into a pool of stagnant water subject to the impact of a breadth of uncontrollable airborne industrial pollutants, and adverse weather conditions 24/7, 365 days a year.

But that's just me. Give me a safe, secure and properly maintained private pool any day.

The struts would level and damp the deflections, r27, but at a very high cost.

Nothing could possibly go wrong with that.

The active damping/leveling struts might cost more than the building. They'd weigh a lot too.

London, as in England? What's the point of such an outdoor pool attraction in a country where it's only sunny and hot, like, two weeks a year?

Whoa! Too cool...definitely would love to try it out.

Can you swim naked in it?

This has GOT to be the worst idea any idiot ever dreamed up in his worst 'shroom hallucination. Yes, so they can find your naked, pulverized body on the ground after you are first cut to ribbons plummeting through the tank as it shatters. ("Waiter, what's this sliced and diced person doing in my soup?" "Looks like the back-stroke, ma'am.")

[quote] It's a swimming pool, not a death machine

Oh, no. That IS a death machine.

As for me, no way no how.

..let them wear caftans, R16

[ O O L ] There is no "P" in our pool.

Wow. You’d definitely have to enforce the no horseplay rule or it could get dangerous.

Said it was for completion in 2018. Was it ever built?

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R40 thanks hon ❤️