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Fire & Ice hotel pool shell, Melrose Arch — completed
Resorts & leisure

Fire & Ice hotel pool shell, Melrose Arch

Completed
2009
Purpose
Resorts & leisure
Location
Melrose Arch, Johannesburg
Size
Background

The story of the build

The gunite shell for the hotel's courtyard pool, built three floors up above the shops for the main contractor in 2009: gunite machines on the deck, the compressor at ground level with the air piped up, and a shell that had to be watertight from the first fill.
Before → after

From the first cut to the first length

Before
Fire & Ice hotel pool shell, Melrose Arch — before the work
Fire & Ice hotel pool shell, Melrose Arch — before the work
Fire & Ice hotel pool shell, Melrose Arch — before the work
During
Fire & Ice hotel pool shell, Melrose Arch — during construction
Fire & Ice hotel pool shell, Melrose Arch — during construction
Fire & Ice hotel pool shell, Melrose Arch — during construction
After
Fire & Ice hotel pool shell, Melrose Arch — completed
Fire & Ice hotel pool shell, Melrose Arch — completed
Fire & Ice hotel pool shell, Melrose Arch — completed
Gallery

The build, photographed

Fire & Ice hotel pool shell, Melrose Arch — completed
Fire & Ice hotel pool shell, Melrose Arch — completed
Fire & Ice hotel pool shell, Melrose Arch — completed
Fire & Ice hotel pool shell, Melrose Arch — completed
Fire & Ice hotel pool shell, Melrose Arch — completed
Fire & Ice hotel pool shell, Melrose Arch — during construction
Fire & Ice hotel pool shell, Melrose Arch — during construction
Fire & Ice hotel pool shell, Melrose Arch — during construction
Fire & Ice hotel pool shell, Melrose Arch — during construction
Fire & Ice hotel pool shell, Melrose Arch — before the work
Fire & Ice hotel pool shell, Melrose Arch — before the work
Fire & Ice hotel pool shell, Melrose Arch — before the work
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