55 storeys (650ft) above the street: this pool on top of a skyscraper in Singapore probably discourages the ‘bomb’…
It looks like you could swim too close to the edge, slip over the side and plunge to your death, but no, this is just a clever (and stomach-churning) optical illusion.
The water seems to end in a sheer drop, but it actually pours into wide gutter below the lip from where it is pumped back into the main pool.
At three three times the length of an Olympic pool it is, we’re reliably informed, the largest outdoor pool in the world ‘at that height’.
It crowns the Bay Sands Hotel – self-styled the most spectacular hotel in Singapore – and, we have to admit, the views are jaw-dropping. But their insurance bill must be massive.
Under no circumstances show this to Boris Johnson – he’s sure to come up with some hair-brained scheme to redirect theThames onto a rooftop in Docklands and force the Olympic divers to perform somersaults and pikes off the Barclays boardroom table in One Canada Square.
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