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Glass-bottomed pool extends from Honolulu tower by SCB
A skyscraper in Hawaii has become the latest to feature a vertigo-inducing swimming pool, allowing brave swimmers to look down through its transparent base.
The glass-bottomed pool extends out from the seventh floor of the Anaha complex in Honolulu, designed by Chicago-based studio Solomon Cordwell Buenz (SCB) in collaboration with local firm Benjamin Woo Architects. San Francisco-based Surfacedesign was responsible for the landscape design, including the swimming facilities.
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Cantilevered 75 feet (23 metres) above the ground, the pool is the latest in a string of similar designs to be proposed or completed around the world. One can be found at a residential tower in Houston and another extends from a hotel in the Italian Alps, while plans are in place to build pools with glass bottoms in London and Surat, India.
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The rest of the 38-storey Anaha tower features green-blue glass cladding, chosen to mimic the colours of the nearby Pacific Ocean. It comprises a stack of volumes with curving walls, offset from one another to look like waves, reaching 400 feet (122 metres) tall .
"The composition is reminiscent of the play between the crests and troughs of a calm ocean wave," said a statement about the project. "And like a wave, the reflection of light off the facade will constantly alter as the viewpoint and environmental conditions change."
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For those not brave enough for the pool, other amenities are spread over an acre of space indoors and out, including a restaurant serving local cuisine.
The building also boasts Hawaii's largest living wall, which covers a surface 80 feet (24 metres) wide by 15 feet (4.6 metres) tall in the grand lobby and contains over 8,000 species of tropical plants.
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A total of 318 residences are contained within the complex, with 244 studios, one-, two- and three-bedroom homes in the tower, along with 73 low-rise flats and townhouses.
It forms part of the wider Ward Village development of shops, restaurants, entertainment venues and public spaces in central Honolulu – the largest city on the Hawaiian island chain, located on the southern shore of Oahu.
Photography is by Nic Lehoux.