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Rooftop pool
A rooftop pool is a swimming pool on top of an urban hotel, usually designed as an infinity pool so it looks like the water spills out over the city skyline. The concept went global after Marina Bay Sands opened in Singapore in 2010 with its 150-meter SkyPark Pool on the 57th floor, probably the most photographed swimming pool in the world. Other big ones: the Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong has the world's highest pool at 118 stories up, the Joule Hotel in Dallas has a glass-bottomed pool that cantilevers over the street, Hotel Americano in NYC, Park Hyatt Bangkok. The pool itself is sometimes shallow, they're built more for the view and the photo than for swimming laps. Influencer magnets.