Jun 25 2008Rotating Skyscraper To Be Built In Dubai
A rotating skyscraper is slated to be built in, wait for it -- Dubai! The structure, designed by Italian architect David Fisher, has floors that can each rotate independently of one another. Allegedly the building will be powered entirely by wind and solar energy via outer solar panels and wind turbines between the floors. I'm curious to see how that works out. I'm also curious how you and your neighbors decide who gets the ocean view and when. I'm guessing it involves threats and/or a good amount of weapon brandishing. Condos are currently going for about $3,000 per square foot but don't bother calling to ask -- I already did and the bastards aren't selling 1' x 1's.
Hit the jump for a VIDEO including some computer animations of the buildng and an interview with the architect.
Dynamic tower plans unveiled [bbcnews]
Thanks Richard, Asbo, and Chris -- send me a postcard if you go see it. But please, no anthrax this time.
Reader Comments
1. SmokingGirl - June 25, 2008 9:57 AM
What will they build next? I know! A brand spakin' new Tower of Babel!
Someday...someday.
2. Brian - June 25, 2008 10:26 AM
I don't quite understand how the pottys flush if you keep spinning the pipes all around... Good thing I held on to my Sesame Street Lil' Big John.
3. monkeymuscle - June 25, 2008 10:28 AM
aaand on top of all that each room has its own vehicle elevator so you can park outside your room even on the top floor! lazy bastards
4. Julian - June 25, 2008 10:29 AM
Watch, the first company party someone will be really hammered "Hey dude, I totally have an F'n great idea, lets shape the building like a giant glass penis. . ." "you mean like the one your mom uses" "bro you wana take this outside""tsh, lets do this"
. . . I'm sorry my whole idea there just turned into frat kegger . . . Hold on, I can still save it . . .
*beatboxing*
"OOOOOHHHH Snap, Y'all just got served."
5. monkeymuscle - June 25, 2008 10:41 AM
or another drunk "i bet i can drive my car through the window and land perfectly fine"
6. rtyd6td - June 25, 2008 10:48 AM
if only Vladimir Tatlin could see this, he would have loved it!!!!
7. McTOM - June 25, 2008 11:09 AM
Verne predicted that. they try to impact earth's spin momentum and unfreeze arctic ice. look at the picture, it's already flooded.
8. Trevor - June 25, 2008 11:15 AM
I'm amazed / blown away by how much money these people in Dubia are spending on architecture.
9. Momboelitist - June 25, 2008 11:47 AM
Next comes the Rubik's Cube Skyscraper....
10. Bob - June 25, 2008 12:07 PM
So I guess I come to geekologie everyday to read about ANCIENT GOD DAMN NEWS
11. Dan - June 25, 2008 12:59 PM
Well...they better start cracking if they want it up by 2010. That would be some fast construction.
12. hot mess - June 25, 2008 1:41 PM
This is absolutely brilliant...must be an extremely innovative architectural team. I want to visit Dubai just to see it.
13. guate6 - June 25, 2008 2:35 PM
#10: Don't be an asshat. Just because you saw something, doesn't mean everyone else has.
Dubai has way too much money. I believe, that if it turned into a philanthropic nation, they could end world hunger. But will that happen? Haha, no. Bastards.
14. pdrunk - June 25, 2008 3:10 PM
Next up, they build the Macross One.
15. nrgspike - June 25, 2008 3:43 PM
A typical skyscraper over it's first 50yr costs the same in maintainence as it's construction. This thing will burn through that every 10yrs or less. Especially if it's being built first in Italy. The Italians are stunning designers, but precision engineers of reliable technology they ain't!
Good luck to them if they can get this thing to work, but I don't give it good odds.
16. bevrli - June 25, 2008 6:28 PM
What if you have motion sickness? Can you make your floor NOT move?
17. SP - June 26, 2008 12:16 AM
I wonder how long you're going to be waiting for those vehicle elevators. And what happens when the system breaks? Will everybody be stuck in or out of their condos? It's got to be a pain to fix.
Looks cool but doesn't seem very practical.
18. holla@meh - June 26, 2008 1:34 AM
why do they put all these fun bulidings and such in dubai. who really wants to go all the way over there??
19. m_munroe - June 26, 2008 1:36 AM
looks like a giant fire hazard to me.
20. Joey - June 26, 2008 1:41 AM
I hope that they synchronize it so that it looks like the first picture at least once a day, cause the rest of the pics look like crap.
21. MBS - June 26, 2008 4:26 AM
#13, Dubai is not really a nation, it's one of United Arab Emirates' emirates/cities.
I've never been there, but I did stop in another city, Abu Dhabi, on my way to Australia. It was a strange place - you could see all the money, and yet the architecture was mixed modern European and Arab. Weird. I wonder if Dubai is like that for the most part.
22. poster - June 26, 2008 8:22 AM
I love how they keep announcing these gigantic building projects to cover up that Dubai keeps arresting people over a speck of a tiny amount of an illegal substance.
Fuckwads.
23. ShitBitch Carl - June 26, 2008 9:08 AM
#13
I feel like there are a number of other nations that, if turned philanthropic, could also end world hunger. But will that happen? No, we're all bastards. Dubai just wants to be the coolest, that way they'll have some favor in the eyes of the biggest bastards on the playground.
24. Sev - June 26, 2008 5:25 PM
Sooo Unreal... here's a site for anyone wanting to look at projects/upcoming things from Dubai: http://www.dubai-architecture.info/DUB-GAL1.htm
25. Go-K - June 26, 2008 8:35 PM
Dude! Are you kidding!? Has ANYBODY seen enough horror movies in here to know that this is NOT a good idea! Buildings that are alive?
This gives me a creepy Resident Evil feel...or a creepy 'Cube' feel...
But on the other hand-- how fun would 'Hide and Seek' be?
26. Ian - June 28, 2008 2:22 PM
maybe we should make buildings that have wind turbines so we could afford to offer dubai 20 bucks a barrel, see how long it takes before it piles up and they agree to our terms, maybe then they will stop flaunting all of their wealth and go back to the stone age. As it is, Dubai is rich and knows that their oil is going to be worth more than gold until the last drop is pulled from the earth.
27. Sammywa - June 29, 2008 9:06 AM
#16: You find another, more economical skyscraper to live in.