You’ve got to admire an architect who can take an ordinary hotel pool and turn it into a genuinely terrifying attraction.
The newly built Sands SkyPark in Singapore offers guests a place to cool off on the 55th floor, nearly 200 metres above ground. Featuring a disappearing edge, the infinity pool gives the illusion of water extending to the horizon, where it ends sharply and the city begins – a pants-filling experience for those afraid of heights.
This nifty innovation comes with a heavy price tag. The SkyPark forms the top platform of the world’s most expensive hotel, the $7 million Marina Bay Sands development.
If the pool doesn’t grab you, there are several other jaw-dropping architectural achievements to marvel over: the sloping towers, which curve by 26 degrees at the steepest point, for example, or the breakneck speed of construction, where one floor was completed every four days.
View from the top Image: Marina Bay Sands
Artist’s impression of the newly opened Marina Bay Sands hotel Image: Marina Bay Sands
The 150 metre infinity swimming pool Image: Marina Bay Sands
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