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Worlds first Moving skyscraper
by stvalentine | June 25, 2008 at 06:24 am | 304 views | 4 comments
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Construction of the world's first moving building, a 80-storey tower with revolving floors which give it an ever-shifting shape, is due to begin.
The Dynamic Tower, which will be built in Dubai, will feature 80 pre-fabricated apartments, spinning independently of one another.
"It's the first building that rotates, moves, and changes shape," said David Fisher, the tower's architect.
"This building never looks the same, not once in a lifetime," he added.
The innovative, 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.
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June 25, 2008 at 06:24 am by stvalentine, 304 views, 4 comments
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at 06:41 on June 25th, 2008
stvalentine, I like this story. It's good stuff. However, what would it be like for people to live in particularly if they have vertigo. I have a job even with the London Eye when it goes really slow. What happens if you are ill and you aren't allowed to stop it spinning?
at 08:12 on June 25th, 2008
Gee I guess the sales office missed the part about free Barf Bags in every suite?
at 06:42 on June 25th, 2008
I wonder what medics say about this building? I wonder what it will be like in the lift too?
at 08:11 on June 25th, 2008
stvalentine, I like this story. It's good stuff. You know when you have unlimited money, you are only held back by your imagination.