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*MAFIA* => News => Topic started by: *MAFIA* Scooby on June 25, 2008, 04:47:47 PM
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"Dubai plans 'moving' skyscraper"
(http://guru3d.com/imageview.php?image=14047)
The world's first moving building, a 80-story tower with revolving floors giving an shifting shape, will be built in Dubai, its architect says.
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-story skyscraper in Moscow.
"I call these buildings designed by time, shaped by life," said the Florence-based architect. "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.
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I would be motion sick the whole time.
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I hope they have accounted for structures stability in regards to all the angles that each apartment can be in at one given time. I see a forthcoming architectural blunder.
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Yea I also thought about that. They have to make sure that the center structural support is the firmest and strongest ever made, since no other part would be connected to the ground.
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A earthquake comes and I wonder how much it will change.
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Depending on the stability it's hard to say..but if that was to occur then I'd bet that No One Would waste 3.6m-36m On something they thought was Dangerous.
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crazy looking building.
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they are indians lol most have more money then they know what to do with. but you gotta admit when the money God crashes there will be splatted bodies all around it, as rich asses will not know what to do without their paper God and jump to their death.
i am gonna call it a spinning meat tower :)
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I'd hate to be a window cleaner on that thing lol
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Depending on the stability it's hard to say..but if that was to occur then I'd bet that No One Would waste 3.6m-36m On something they thought was Dangerous.
hai, who are you? bay
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they are indians lol most have more money then they know what to do with. but you gotta admit when the money God crashes there will be splatted bodies all around it, as rich asses will not know what to do without their paper God and jump to their death.
i am gonna call it a spinning meat tower :)
LOL WUT?
Dubai =/= India
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Here I found a video of it if you want to see it in action.
Video (http://www.break.com/index/dynamic-architecture-in-dubai.html)
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Roshan, they deleted your first link.
Here's a related article: http://tags.gizmodo.com/5117473/nakagin-capsule-tower-looks-to-be-from-the-future-but-probably-wont-make-it-there
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That building looks as if it was built of old washing machines.
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There is a moving skyscraper in my pants. Who wants to see it???