Rotating Skyscraper Planned For Dubai

Dubai already has a truly stunning landscape, every space conceivable taken up my massive and beautifull buildings.



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I think that is an amazing and unique idea. what do you guys think about a rotating tower?!

I think that's awesome.

A different view outside your window whenever you look!

I should warn you, if you plan to check this tower out in the future,

BOOK IN ADVANCE, appearently people are already scrambling for space in the tower.

[edit on 24-3-2007 by misterfantastic]

I think I've seen that somewhere before. In any event, a rotating tower is really cool. There is one locally called "The Revolving Restaurant", which is at the top floor of a tall building, and just the top floor rotates. It rotates once maybe every hour or two, the idea being that you go through roughly 360 degrees during your meal.

This sounds much more impressive, since there will be multiple rotating floors, and rotating at different speeds, so that they will need a set of controls and equipment for each floor that rotates.

Dubai is one of the richest cities in the world. They can afford to do cool stuff like this as a matter of course.

we even have a tower that kinda rotates in our city, well, the floor rotates inside the building so you can walk around the edge faster i guess.

but different floors rotating would be sweet.

they build another multi-billion skyscraper, but in the same time:


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yeah, that's cool!

actually it costs 500 million us. so not even a billion, and there is another thread for pictures like that.

I find myself broadly with Untilted on this one.

I know there will always be "haves" and "have nots" in the world no matter how hard we try to eradicate poverty but amusing at it may sound this project is just plain gross.

I can't help feeling that history will look back on a small Arab state with many of its residents scratching for a living whilst others enjoy this sort of privilege as being really rather unpleasant.

exactly, but hey, lets celebrate the new fancy skyscraper... who cares if people die from hunger as a result...

that is for another thread, ain't it?...

I think the OP was going for the "Oooh, that's freakin' sweet" factor... not interested in the political side...

I mean c'mon... do you refrain from upgrading your computer or buying a great television to feed the homeless guy on the corner? ... the fact that you HAVE a computer would suggest that you opted to help yourself to something nice instead of giving up your hard-earned money for the drunk at the curb...

Yeah, the kids that die - we all feel sorry for them... but the fact is - we do what WE want with our money - do you send your 78 cents per day to help that old guy feed kids in poor countries? I know I don't... even though I feel like I SHOULD... and if I were Bill Gates rich, I would give craploads away (as he and his wife do)... but that doesn't mean I can't build myself a crazy expensive compound to call home!

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Anyhoo... back on topic...

That's a freakin' sweet building!

[edit on 26-3-2007 by Harlowe JNkinz]

I'm sure your right about the intention of the original post and all you say about charitable giving and our own greedy consumption, (mine most certainly included), is undeniable.

In this particular instance it was just the futile extravagance of the project desiged for just 72 living units that struck me as being so absurd. It's probably no worse that the fancy hotel and the man made islands in the great scheme of things but this does really seem to ram the gross inequities of that part of the world down peoples throats.

I simply have a feeling that this concept, complete with its own private car lift, (for what purpose exactly?), somehow transcended the boundries of cool and good taste and descended into the world of the tacky.

I can agree with that...

I think it would make me feel sea-sick lol!

Ross

i dont like political battles at all. they can go on forever, this thread was meant to wooo the ingenius idea of a skyscraper with rotating floors.

i would have never thought of that myself, you can even change how fast the floor rotates when you get inside.

That's fair enough although I don't think it invalidates some of the more broadly based comments in the thread.

As for the building itself, well rotating floors are hardly new as they've been around for over 40 years, although this one does seem to trump others by having more of them...

...and that's why I'm finding it hard to like or even admire this project. It's nothing new, it's not aesthetically pleasing to look at, it's just , well, ...more.

Ugly in concept and execution I'm afraid.

[edit on 27-3-2007 by timeless test]

i dont think someone would spend 500 million us to build something to look ugly.

I think you could rustle up bus loads of critics of modern architecture, (which I generally am not), to disagree with you quite violently on that one, but it's purely subjective of course.

idea is almost a century old. check out Vladimir Tatlin's tower. They didn't have the means to build it back then, but it would be some monument if they did.