Soon after a spate of luxury developments with private suspended swimming pools, developer Guildhouse has announced programs for a Croydon skyscraper with a glass-bottomed pool on the 14th floor that would be open for absolutely everyone.
The company has amended earlier plans submitted for the One Lansdowne Road developing, which was originally developed as a fifty five-floor skyscraper that would house offices, flats and a hotel.
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Guildhouse has now proposed a design that characteristics two tower blocks, containing 35 and 65 storeys, that will be bridged at the 14th floor by a 25-metre-lengthy glass-bottomed swimming pool.
Prior 1 Lansdowne Road design
This would be the 2nd of its sort in London, with a equivalent glass “sky pool” planned to hyperlink apartment blocks in London’s new 9 Elms quarter, close to Battersea Energy Station.
A five-tower development in Surat, Gujarat also attributes a transparent suspended pool, that will bridge residential blocks.
The One Lansdowne Street improvement previously featured one particular tower (this image), but has been revised to integrated two towers (major picture)
“We’ve nicked an idea from Nine Elms and are going to have a swimming pool flying in between the two buildings,” stated Guildhouse chief executive David Hudson. “That would be a public facility along with a health club.”
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The 65-storey “mini-Shard” would be the tallest building in Croydon, and could host the highest bar in Europe.
“Because we are going to be so higher, with views of London and views of the south, we are going to have a viewing gallery at the quite best of the developing to get men and women into the creating and get it to grow to be an attraction,” additional Hudson.
Earlier 1 Lansdowne Street layout
Guildhouse has not nevertheless released photos of what the pool might appear like. The addition was apparently the thought of the China Constructing Technique Group Company, which lately signed a £500 million contract to construct the creating.
The framework would also function 14,864 square metres of workplace room, as nicely as 184 studio apartments, 419 a single-bedrooms flats, 334 two-beds, twelve 3-beds and 12 penthouse suites.
The developers are set to submit a planning application at the end of 2015, and intend to comprehensive development in 2018.
