These aren’t your backyard swimming holes. The strangest pools in the world will take you for a swim by the terraced gardens of Bali, in blood-red water in Turkey or in a 3000-foot monstrosity built on the Chilean coast.
That’s how the new pool at Market Square Tower — a luxury apartment complex in Houston — is set up. The pool is on the building’s roof, and there’s a section of it that juts out over the edge of the building and has a glass bottom.
Take a dive into the world of crazy adventures with this glass bottomed pool 40 storeys high.
Imagine, splashing in the cool waters, swimming in a gorgeous pool as you look down and enjoy a picturesque view of the entire city. Seems too good to be true?
Well, you can do all this and more in the world’s highest glass-bottomed pool situated in Houston, Texas in the USA. To swim in this pool you definitely need to have a liking for heights, cause this pool is not for the faint-hearted. This is for water babies, who absolutely love heights.
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In a bid to outperform Skydeck, a glass box that extends 1,353 feet in the air from the tallest building in Chicago, a luxury apartment high rise has made the highest pool in Texas.
So when people wade out into that section, they can look down and enjoy the somewhat terrifying sensation of walking above the city.
The world’s highest glass-bottomed pool is built at the rooftop of Market Square Tower, a luxury apartment in Houston, Texas. This gorgeous pool built on the building’s rooftop has a section of it that juts out over the edge of the building and has a glass bottom. Hanging off the 40th floor of the apartment building in downtown Houston, this cantilevered glass-bottomed infinity pool is just perfect for daredevils to challenge their swimming skills coupled with their love for heights.
The pool is situated at the rooftop of the 40-story Market Square Tower and features a see-through infinity edge pool that is 500 feet above street level, making it the city’s first glass-bottomed pool and Texas’ highest.
When people wade around this pool, they can just look down and enjoy the adrenaline rushing sensation of walking above the city (500 feet from above). Yes, you definitely feel like you’re on top of the world. This pool often creates waves on Instagram. There’s a thrilling clip of a person who walked across bare feet along the pool’s 8-inch thick plexiglass bottom, which sits out 10 feet from the side of Market Square Tower. It’s known for being the tallest pool in Texas, the only glass-bottomed pool in Houston and the highest glass-bottomed pool in the world.
It also extends 10 feet beyond the side of the building to give swimmers a birds-eye view of downtown Houston below, as well as, “make it seem as if you’re floating in the sky while you take a dip,” according to Travel and Leisure.
Is swimming in this pool on your bucket list now? There is a clause though. In order to access the pool, you need to be a resident of Market Square Tower, and one-bedroom apartments at the tower start at around $2,100 a month. Whoa.
If you do visit the Market Square Tower but your heart cannot handle the Sky Pool, the property has another pool on the fourth floor terrace.
