World's first Sky Pool installed: 25-metre swimming pool suspended between rooftops of two luxury skyscrapers in Nine Elms now in place

An aquarium-style suspended swimming pool, designed to float between the rooftops of two luxury skyscrapers in London, has been completed.

The transparent acrylic structure was the final piece of the highly-anticipated Sky Pool, a show-stopping amenity at a new residential neighbourhood in Nine Elms, Vauxhall.

The 25m transparent outdoor pool was lifted in place yesterday by one of the largest mobile cranes in the world. The pool was manufactured in Colorado and driven 1,000 miles to Galveston, Texas, before being shipped across the Atlantic over the last month.

Daring residents of Embassy Gardens will be able to do lengths in the open-top swimming pool between the two towers - 10 storeys above the ground.

The Sky Pool, which was designed by HAL Architects, will be filled with 148,000 litres of water and is expected to open next spring. A parallel footbridge will sit alongside it and the rooftop of westerly tower will house a lounge, oyster bar and an orangery.

Embassy Gardens is the new 2,000-home development in the Nine Elms and Battersea Power Station regeneration zone. It is adjacent to the US Embassy and One Embassy Gardens - a commercial district which will be home to the giant publishing house Penguin.

The final residential building at the Ecoworld Ballymore scheme is under construction with prices starting from £695,000.