The 10 most controversial architecture projects of 2021
Next in our review of 2021, we round up 10 of the most controversial schemes that made headlines this year, including the Sky Pool and The Tulip.
Photo is by Simon Kennedy
Sky Pool, UK, by HAL
A transparent swimming pool suspended between two buildings at the Embassy Gardens development in London gained huge attention this summer as aerial footage of residents enjoying the facility on a hot day went viral.
But the HAL-designed pool came in for heavy criticism after the Guardian's Olly Wainwright pointed out that the affordable housing residents of Nine Elms are not allowed to use it. The Financial Times' architecture critic branded the Sky Pool "the visual cipher for everything that is wrong with London?s property boom, its local politics, its architecture and its optics", while the New Statesman also covered it in scathing terms.
Residents of the building have since spoken to Dezeen about how the pool runs up heating costs of £450 per day, despite being too cold to use in the winter. They are calling for it to be closed during the winter months.
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