World's first rotating skyscraper unveiled in Dubai
The Dubai skyline will be constantly changing after plans for the world's first rotating tower were unveiled.
The 80-storey "Dynamic Tower," will be a shifting skyscraper of luxury apartments on spinning floors, which will be attached to a central column.
Plans for the project were unveiled in New York by Italian architect David Fisher, who said: "This building will have endless different shapes".
The 420-meter (1,378-foot) building features 80 apartments that spin a full 360 degrees around a central column by means of 79 power-generating wind turbines located between each floor.
The apartments will take between one and three hours to make a complete rotation, and at 30,000 dollars (£15,254) per square meters, will cost between 3.7 million (£1.8 million) to 36 million dollars (£18 million).
Mr Fisher said the skyscraper, which would be energy self sufficient and cost about 700 million dollars (£355 million) to build, was due to be completed in Dubai by 2010.
The Mirax group plans to build a similar, 70-story skyscraper in Moscow. "We look forward to build a third one in New York and maybe in other cities," said Fisher.added.
The future of what? It's a gimmick. It's a wide scale use of a 50 year old technology. And while some of these towers certainly may be built, it certainly isn't some sort of architectural movement...just a blip...
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You've got to take into consideration the long term durability of something like this. Things with moving parts break eventually, which is fine if it is a household appliance, or a car, or your lawn mower; but as far as towers go, such a device would be hard pressed to endure the test of time in my approximation. Skyscrapers have enough challenges without the added possibility of stripping a gear or running low on oil.
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