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xaace | June 25, 2008

The Dynamic Tower design is made up of 80 pre-fabricated apartments which wil...

xaace | June 25, 2008

The Dynamic Tower design is made up of 80 pre-fabricated apartments which will spin independently of one another.

"It's the first building that rotates, moves, and changes shape," said architect David Fisher, who is Italian, at a news conference in New York.

"This building never looks the same, not once in a lifetime," he added.
The 420-metre (1,378-foot) building's apartments would spin a full 360 degrees, at voice command, around a central column by means of 79 giant power-generating wind turbines located between each floor.

The slender building would be energy self-sufficient as the turbines would produce enough electricity to power the entire building and even feed extra power back into the grid, said the Italian architect at the unveiling of the project in New York. The apartments, which will take between one and three hours to make a complete rotation, will cost from $3.7m to $36m.
There are also plans to build a similar, 70-storey skyscraper in Moscow.

"I call these buildings designed by time, shaped by life," said the Florence-based architect, who has never built a sky-scraper before. "These buildings will open our vision all around, to a new life." The skyscraper will cost an estimated $700m to build and should be up and running in Dubai in 2010.

Find more at www.dynamicarchitecture.net

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  • i want an apartment in this thing. how much?

  • 13,000 USD/ square foot.

  • Dubai is one of the richest country in the world, I think they can do this just for the hell of it.

  • true ^

    and plasterbastard, why are u so negative about dubai?

    why cant u just trust them since they are one of the most powerful cities in the world.

  • Right, so I'm an idiot because I question the validity of having a tower that turns, because I feel that it may be too power hungry for our current energy crisis?

    Or...

    Maybe you just need to read what people say instead of throwing a knee-jerk reaction out. I didn't say this was impossible. It is sound planning. What I fear is that the power requirements for a whole bunch of these buildings will be too severe.

    I said that to power this building in the manner proposed is next to impossible.

  • I'm with ogschizo, why can't you just mind your own business if they want a twirling tower then they've got it. If you were to design a building and everyone says it wouldnt work would you give up? I'm sure you would say no cause you know that it would work!

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  • we must build these kind of bulidings otherwise we could be bored to death.

  • Ego? This is reality!!!! Moscow and Dubai are building one each!!!

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  • When will it open?

  • english architect mate.

  • lollooking for a guy who knows his way around a lady's body

  • and why are you satisfied the arab tech is developing and not the others?

  • It is a great visible development of arab science and tcnology.I am very stiscified and wish all arab countries to go ahead with all fields.

  • So if a cruise liner rotates in the sea it becomes a building?

  • There's a difference between moving in relation to the earth and in relation to yourself.

  • fantastick!

  • Antes de decir tonterias infórmate. El edificio tiene un núcleo central inmobil, tu no te enteras que te mueves porque no hay aceleración, la energía la sacan del aire, los mueve el aire, y además, esa energía abastece al edificio.

    Por lo que el edificio no consume nada, sinó que genera.

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