Architect designs rotating building
Updated on 25 June 2008
An architect has designed a building in Dubai which moves.
The Dubai tower is expected to open in two years time and it will feature 80 pre-fabricated apartments.
The innovative 420-metre building will spin a full 360 degrees at voice command, around a central column by means of 79 power-generating wind turbines located between each floor.
The apartments, ranging from 1,335 square feet - 12,917 square feet, will take between one and three hours to make a complete rotation, and at $30,000 per square metre, will cost from $3.7 million to $36 million.
Dr David Fisher, the Italian architect behind this building said: "This building will have endless different shapes."
He added: "We look forward to build a third one in New York and maybe in other cities."
He said the skyscraper, which will be completely energy self sufficient and will cost an estimated $700 million to build, should be up and running in Dubai in 2010.
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