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

image

I'm getting motion-sickness just watching the video -- what will happen in the city? (I pity the drunks.)
     Posted By: gdanea - Sun Jun 28, 2009
     Category: Buildings and Other Structures





Comments
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 06/28/09 at 05:30 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
Posted by Leshka on 06/28/09 at 09:34 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 06/28/09 at 10:30 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.
Posted by kingmonkey in Athens, Ontario on 06/30/09 at 02:43 PM
Commenting is not available in this channel entry.