Spinning Skyscraper opens next year
Get your reservation now!! A spinning skyscraper being built in Italy will be shipped and assembled in Dubai.The skyscraper slowly revolves and can be set to move different ways. Here's the video with "dramatic" background music.
Here's the web link so you can save your spot on the top floor:
http://www.dynamicarchitecture.net/home.html
I'm getting motion-sickness just watching the video -- what will happen in the city? (I pity the drunks.)
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That's a building I would never step foot into. I just can't imagine it working the way they intend it too and I wouldn't want to be anywhere near it when it comes down.
Posted by Nethie on 06/28 at 02:30 AM
The energy involved in making that thing spin must be enormous. I wonder if you'd be able to hear the movement while you're in the building. I'm assuming the elevator would be in the middle, which presumably doesn't move, but you'd have to reorient yourself every time you got off on your floor.
I have the sneaking suspicion that the architects didn't think of absolutely everything. They just wanted a pretty building. They should have hired me, I'm an expert at pointing out flaws.
Makes me think of this (especially after 3:15) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bkWYAQjETQ
I have the sneaking suspicion that the architects didn't think of absolutely everything. They just wanted a pretty building. They should have hired me, I'm an expert at pointing out flaws.
Makes me think of this (especially after 3:15) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bkWYAQjETQ
Posted by Leshka on 06/28 at 06:34 AM
I wouldn't be caught in one of those things either, but I thought I remember hearing that there was going to be one built in the US.
Posted by mdb777 on 06/28 at 07:30 AM
my first thought was it they should build one where the towers were. then i read the comments. very good points all. the last thing nyc needs is another building falling down even if it's a structural flaw and not terrorists.
Posted by patty on 06/28 at 11:08 AM
Of course it wouldn't rotate as fast as it does in the videos. I particularly enjoyed the IED going off on Palm Island in the artist's rendering.
Posted by Michael McDonald in Washington, DC on 06/29 at 05:23 AM
Other than proving that Dubai has an economy based entirely on the self-gratification of its rich inhabitants, what would the purpose of this structure be?
To be fair, it would be great in a movie. Imagine the twist it would put on The Towering Inferno.
To be fair, it would be great in a movie. Imagine the twist it would put on The Towering Inferno.
Posted by kingmonkey in Athens, Ontario on 06/30 at 11:43 AM
Twisted Inferno? Wouldn't it effectively fan itself?
How cool would that be?!?
How cool would that be?!?
Posted by Wayne in Wildwood on 06/30 at 12:12 PM
not cool, that would be HOT! 
Posted by patty on 06/30 at 01:41 PM
Well contrary to most of the comments, I'd love a high-up apartment in this thing. So... does it come with a personal escape jetpack or would I need to supply my own?
Posted by Dumbfounded on 07/01 at 08:36 AM
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