London plans stunning infinity pool atop 5 story building

[ClaraC]

The first question I think everyone will have is, "how do you get in it"?

Answer has to do with some kind of a spiral staircase underwater and a door designed like a submarine's door.

Someone's going to down the first week this thing is open.

Or someone will fall off it.

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/in...cli/index.html

[JerseyGirl415]

Yeah, no thanks.

[bus man]

No how, no way. One little crack in that plexiglass wall, and all the water and all the swimmers go rushing out like a burst dam, plunging 55 stories to their doom. And if that submarine-like staircase gets jammed, then what? How do you get out?

[ClaraC]

Originally Posted by bus man

No how, no way. One little crack in that plexiglass wall, and all the water and all the swimmers go rushing out like a burst dam, plunging 55 stories to their doom. And if that submarine-like staircase gets jammed, then what? How do you get out?

I don't know. All kinds of awful possibilities.

What if a lightening storm comes up unexpectedly and there are 30 swimmers? Seems impossible to quickly evacuate the pool.

I wonder if it actually will ever be built. The insurance would be astronomical.

[ByeByeLW]

Yeah my first thought was having to be airlifted from the pool due to a staircase malfunction.

[ClaraC]

Originally Posted by ByeByeLW

Yeah my first thought was having to be airlifted from the pool due to a staircase malfunction.

And how would you get someone out of there who has a health issue - a heart attack, asthma attack, and probably most common, a panic attack? They have to swim through a tunnel to get out of the pool.

I would think panic attacks would be exceptionally common. You're 55 stories up, and the illusion is that there are no walls/boundaries.

Even picturing it gives me anxiety!

[waffleiron1968]

London is a stunning city to visit.

[Brave New World]

Originally Posted by ClaraC

The first question I think everyone will have is, "how do you get in it"?

Answer has to do with some kind of a spiral staircase underwater and a door designed like a submarine's door.

Someone's going to down the first week this thing is open.

Or someone will fall off it.

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/in...cli/index.html

Companies sometimes show renderings of things that never get built just to get some publicity.

The skyscraper infinity pool – sorry, but where's the diving board? | The Guardian

Another pool in London called the Skypool, is being built at Battersea, opposite the new US Embassy in London.

The one and only Sky Pool - Embassy Gardens

The first ever sky pool is coming to London | Metro News

[ABQalex]

Below is a story about a somewhat similar pool atop an apartment building in Downtown Houston. It has a section jutting out from the building that is made of glass.

https://www.insider.com/glass-bottom...n-texas-2017-4

[ByeByeLW]

Yeah with that infinity pool there’s no dry spot to give CPR should someone need it. It probably won’t be approved. Who am I to say.

I can picture myself in that sky pool, swimming to the other side and then being afraid to swim back lol.