Mumbai's new luxury residential high-rise

The Bandra Ohm, a residential high-rise being built in Mumbai, is offering the latest extravagance in luxury condos – a private-balcony swimming pool in every unit.  The 30-storey tower will have 100 units that will each boast of their own crescent-shaped balcony pools enclosed in acrylic, the material used in large aquariums, reports The Wall Street Journal.

James Law Cybertecture, the Hong Kong-based firm, working on the project, is designing the building with private swimming pools in order to offer a new approach to high-rise living. The entire building takes its inspiration from water. According to the firm, “The design concept of the tower is inspired by the ripple effect generated by water droplets, which is also known as the capillary wave.” 

The ripple pattern creates an empty space in the centre of the building, where the developers have built a specially designed clubhouse. This is not the first development that a builder is planning to have a private swimming pool in every balcony.


In fact, a 35-storey building in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, has a tagline that says, “94 apartments, 95 swimming pools”. In the Bahamas, a 34-unit building project named ‘Honeycomb’, too, is set to have a private pool in every apartment.