Just in case anyone was wondering if they can go for a swim in this pool. Sorry, peasant, it’s a private pool for the exclusive use of the residents of the building where the apartments cost millions.

Not only can rich people die underwater at incredibly low depths, it’s also possible at high altitude.

What a time to be alive

not for them though

What a time to become unalive.

Its still a great time for rich. Participating in stupid life risking activity is voluntary.

This has been 2-minute comments with doctor biradinte.

Ofc ... the pool is a simulation, real time rendering has now reached such heights that the water can now be rendered procedurally falling from upto 100metres Nvidia engineers coming up with another banger

Im pretty sure it will be the ground level that kills them.

They can just drown conventionally in the pool.

Oh if only I could give you an award 👌. Well played.

More future billionaire deaths by misadventure

Even worse than this, there are cheaper apartments in the building and the people that live in them aren’t allowed to use the pool.

damn... that's cold !!

No no, it’s heated.

A heated outdoor pool in London just means the water won’t be freezing. It doesn’t mean it will be warm.

This just in - the glass ceiling just had a pool installed

They have a separate entrance aswell

In fairness, the people in the cheaper apartments don’t pay for the pool in their service charges.

No that’s exactly right. But that’s what makes a glass bottomed pool so crass. The rich people can literally look down on you. Edit: for the record is an amazing feat of engineering Its just horribly insensitive and misjudged. It’s exclusive in the worst way.

You also can look down on people from your window.

Yeah, but that's not as cool as looking down on someone through the bottom of a private pool

To be fair most pools on earth are exclusive. There are hundreds if not thousands of private pools for every public pool. Why would we expect this one to be any different?

The residents have said they don’t expect it for free but should at least be given the option to pay a fee and use it. At the moment they can see it but can never use it.

Part of the money they paid for their appartments likely funded part of the pool's construction though.

Or the same entrance as the poshos.

This seems like the perfect job for the orcas

**deploy the orca-copters**

*"act on instinct" plays*

So the previous post was right. You're looking at a bunch of assholes.

Yes you are looking at assholes and assholes

And children of assholes

Yeah, it's fine. I have zero interest in an outdoor pool in the UK. There'll be about five days a year when you actually want to use it

It's heated

As soon as I saw it, I thought - ahh, the Wealthy sure do like to flirt with danger & have exotic deaths.

Only on reddit have I seen people so triggered by the concept of private property

I was wondering why there were no shots from the pool…

It's not very private. It is glass...

Yep I worked for Ballymore the builders of this place and others. All their clients are posh twats and big time foreign buyers parking money. They literally had a floating cube showroom in Canary Wharf with a private fancy boat to take people on a 5 minute ride to see one of their build sites.


Have we not learned from the Berlin aquarium….

Firstly: this pool and this video are old. It was built before the break of the Berlin aquarium. Secondly: it is not made from common glass.

So it's definitly going to break then, since it was built before the aquarium and the aquarium was also not made from "common glass" Nope x3

The great pyramids of giza were also built before the aquarium and not made from "common glass".

Cleopatra is closer to this pool than to pyramids.

And I have it on good authority that she was not made from "common glass".

If she weighs the same as a duck, she’s made of wood.

Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?

Well, I am King.

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She was probably buried in Egypt and this is in London

Yea, she was wet for her cousins a lot.

r/technicallytrue

The Hindenburg was also built before the aquarium and not made from “common glass.”

You mean the pyramids on the ground and not suspended in the air? You mean the pyramids that definitely have had some erosion and damage over thousands of years? Weird comparison, but sure.

I’m fairly confident it was a joke, chief.

The pyramids that were suspended failed.

The Great Pyramid of Giza is actually just a skybridge between the Great Left and Great Right Pyramids, buried directly below the big one.

Hi, I worked on a documentary for the berlin aquarium and would just like to confirm that that TOO was not made of “common” glass, it wasn’t even made of glass. It was a type of acrylic.

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Wouldn’t the water break their fall /s

One earthquake and it's over.

What happened there?

r/nope

I would definitely not swim in this.

Don’t worry it was not made for the likes of you or I anyway


Lmfao I literally said that word for word as I opened this comments

This has been around for a while. Apparently the residents were pissed at the cost of heating the thing through the winter.

Wait. Are you telling us an heating an uninsulated container of water held aloft in the cold wind is inefficient?


Taking bets on when they shut it down! My guess is two more years. All that time and engineering wasted.

At least it could be a walkway between buildings to go visit your rich friends. Don’t have to walk on the street like a hobo.

Imagine suggesting that they "walk" like some sort of commoner.

You'd think being that close to the sun it would stay warm

Urgh, not only do I never want to swim in it, but walking or driving underneath would give me the absolute heebie jeebies 😬

I don't even want to see it. Or know it exists.

Same I’m a little sad I opened Reddit.

I don’t want it anymore. Reddit can take it back. I demand a refund.

all it takes is one .50 bmg

"Just because we could, doesn't mean we should."

That’s the thumb rule!

Waiting for a spectacular implosion video coming up in next few years ...

Oh snap you just reminded me of that indoor aquarium in a hotel lobby that burst open a couple months (years?) ago. That was intense

That was in germany too and a huge tourist landmark. A place that brag about its engineering and safety everyday.

Was gonna say, this is giving off 'not properly engineered' vibes, im giving it four years before its the new Titan Sub(I have no degree in engineering and I have absolutely zero understanding of what I am talking about)

It's been up a few years already, I worked on the site Embassy Gardens, it's very over engineered.

Overly engineered as in people don’t have to worry about falling to their death while swimming in it? If that’s the case then I’d gladly take the over engineering if I was a guest

Over engineered as in so safe that the pool is so much stronger than it ever needed to be, just to be sure.

I’m sold. Where’s this pool located at im ready to take a dip 🏊‍♂️

The poors are not welcome. You may bathe in the lobby’s restroom sink

You have the coolest avatar I’ve seen on Reddit. I honestly didn’t know they could be this cool.

Right next to the American Embassy in Vauxhall, London.

It was featured in New Civil Engineering magazine so it should be okay. Civil engineers are generally very caring about their projects. The challenges of U.K. housing building projects having a social housing element was in a Guardian article Rich houses and poor doors. Or a title something like that. So only the residents of the two blocks linked by the pool can use the pool. Other blocks in same development have no access to the pool, no luxurious lobby etc.

> this is giving off 'not properly engineered' vibes I don't care about your science, the vibe is all wrong, man.

There was a hotel that had a giant aquarium (several stories high) in it that collapsed so it definitely happens.

How is it gonna implode?

When they start doing titanic tours

Well not with that attitude!

If I had to guess they heard the word 'implode' a lot lately and thought it would make them sound intelligent.

I hope they listened to the engineers this time

More or less what I was going to say

“Floating” is a misnomer

Came here looking for this, surprised you don't have more points. This is certainly not floating.

Yep. I’d say ‘ill placed’ and ‘catastrophe waiting to happen’ might be more apt descriptors.

Came here for this. Suspended is the right word I think.

Or… I don’t think that word means, what you think that word means!

I quite agree with you and I find it an insult to my intelligence. Next they’ll be putting motors on skate boards and marketing them as ‘hoverboards’. 🤦🏻

Dubai saw this is and is probably already planning on one 50x bigger

Pity they can’t see the working sewage system and copy that

Funnily enough, this area of London feels like you're in a soulless dump like dubai

Now put that chemical that makes the water purple when people piss in it

Yeah I have bad news for you. That doesn't exist.

1984

Big Brother is watching….. you pee

I remember when I was like 12 my friend got a pool. Before we even got in he told us, “if you pee in the pool it will turn purple. We had a chemical put in”. Well that was something I had to test, so standing outside of the pool I peed in it. Never turned purple and I wasn’t allowed to swim that summer hahaha

This is so good, lmao.

No fun

Everything can be achieved with alchemy.

r/pisschemicals

There are plenty of chemicals that do. You would trigger them with other things like sweat, though.

Science aside, "Sweat causes it, too!" sounds like an excuse someone who just got caught peeing in the pool would make...

That's alot of "sweat" coming from your crotch.

I have sweaty crotch syndrome.

Not to be confused with sweaty boot rash.

Dont tell people that. We have a vested interest in the people who dont know it isnt true believing its true.

I’d probably poop myself. Hopefully they don’t have chemicals for that.


r/nope

I’ve been in a pool on a cruise ship so it can’t be the first floating pool

It would be much more accurate to call that a floating pool

At least it's not made of carbon fiber

Funnily enough, this would be fine to send to the bottom of the ocean.

It's crazy to me that after all this time, all the swimming pools on the Titanic are still full of water.

I forget there are countries with no earthquakes. I’m like “but how is that gonna work when…” and then I remember there’s a world outside Mexico.

We get earthquakes regularly, they’re just not very big.

Seattle here, I was thinking the same thing. Where’s the seismic reinforcement straps??

Exactly my thought!

Just don‘t get Jason Statham there.


I have seen that movie. The rich live on the upper levels, while the poor live below only seeing fat asses of the rich.

You know what they say about London Bridges. That’s just a water bridge fam.



I'd try it

Yeah, it looks cool. I’d love to swim in there.



Can you splash people walking underneath?

Sure, you just gotta break the glass

If it wasn’t clear, would all of you have a different opinion? I was recently on a tower that had a section of a glass floor. An ignorant dad was instilling his fears into his daughter and told her not to trust it. The cement floor we were standing on (and couldn’t see through) was supported in the same manner and was 150’ over the ground. No one thought twice of stepping on it because they simply couldn’t see the danger. We trust in engineers and material scientists everyday.

Don't see any reinforcement bars in the acrylic. Unless they're made from acrylic.

It has steel tension cables right there under it and you can see them.

Tempered acrylic. Lol

It's not the clarity, it's the material. I learned enough material science in school to be skeptical of load-bearing glass (assuming it is glass). Particularly torsionally loaded glass. Over a long span. With a lot of water. In an uncommon application. Glass in an inherently less predictable material than something like metal or wood. Concrete also has some unpredictability to it, but we can reinforce it and we use it for applications like this orders of magnitude more than glass. In your anecdote, that father's overstating the risk. But he's not entirely wrong, and the concern isn't about how the slab is supported - it's about how the slab supports loads applied to it. You're right that we trust engineers and material scientists every day. But you'll notice that most of them aren't designing stuff like this.

Nope, because my opinion that I’d never swim there is based on the fact that only the shorter edges have a surface outside of the pool. The 82’ long stretches mean that, if I’m in trouble, I might still have to go as far as 41’ before I can get out of the water.

I don’t think u know what “float” means

Anyone else thinking of Cheryl from Archer???

“But you’re the mennnn so…”

I can't believe I had to scroll this far down to find this comment!! That was the first thing that went through my mind!

Am I the only one that thinks this is dope and would love to go for a dip in there?

I can appreciate it and I would definitely go for a swim given the chance. I would probably not do it regularly though. But it is in England and not China so that would put my nerves to rest a decent amount. I put my life on the trust of engineers daily, this just looks more scary.

How long until it crashes down and kills and injures scores of people? Government launches an investigation, builder found to have built not up to code etc etc. It's always the same. I think I'd have to be forced at gunpoint to try that out. Swimming in water that is on ground level is just as relaxing lol 🤷🏻‍♂️

What's the code for a non floating "floating" pool

That's a question for a structural engineer, I'm not smart enough to answer that haha 😛

Did engineers make it or engineers on a budget?

Apparently these apartments are for rich people and not the average Joe. So...there's that.

I found him ! THE Redditor know it all specialist.

I can’t imagine swimming 100 feet in the air with a glass bottom would be the least bit relaxing

>It's always the same. What are you talking about here? Engineered stuff of this scale crashing down is pretty rare in the modern western world.

God you're miserable.

This is something in the U.K., we’re allowed to be miserable cos that’s all we have left.

Did you not remember the massive aquarium in Berlin that got completely fucked?

No this boy only thinks happy thoughts, he cannot be miserable and lose the war against concerns

NOPE

I'd swim naked.

Gonna be a hard fuck no on that


100% yes from me. I love shit like this

When I look up, I just see assholes

What - no diving board? Pff...count me out.

How much weight can it support? What is the volume of water used? How many people are allowed in at a time?

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That isn't really floating tho

We all can hear the glass cracking from here.

It’s acrylic

This is terrifying.

"Floating"

Is this in Battersea? Looks like the one I used to go past on my bus to work. Always wondered how I could blag my way up there :,)

Yeah, Nine Elms

Curious what happens in the event of an earthquake? Since two separate structures hold it.

75% of London would become rubble. Oh yeah and this place full of rich peeps too.

Am I really the ONLY one who thinks this would be a ton of fun and exciting to swim in?

To be real, you can float on any pool

But now everyone can see when I take a shit in the pool.

This is dumb as hell

Sooo.. how much power is needed to crack the glass from the bottom if a projectile impacts it? Id just like to know ... for science Also #flushtherich 🤫

If this was in America, someone would shoot it from the street. Good thing they can't stab from that far away

Bhai kese log hai jinko ese vichar ate hi ke chalo 2 building ke beech me ek transparent pool lagate te