Skyscraper With Revolving Floors Planned For Dubai
Dubai is quickly becoming the city of tomorrow. It is already full of architectural marvels from the indoor ski slopes to the man-made islands. Dubai is also becoming famous for its mega shopping malls. The latest crazy plan according to CBS is an 80-story skyscraper that includes revolving floors called the Dynamic Tower, which is being built by Dynamic Architecture.
Italian architect Dr. David Fisher announced on Tuesday the launch of a revolutionary skyscraper in Dubai dubbed as the "world's first building in motion," an 80-story tower with revolving floors that give it an ever-shifting shape.
The spinning floors, hung like rings around an immobile cement core, would offer residents a constantly changing view of the Persian Gulf and the Dubai's futuristic skyline.
At a news conference in New York, Rotating Tower Dubai Development Ltd headed by the Dynamic Group, revealed the design and floor plans of the rotating building.
The one planned for Dubai will rise 1,380 feet into the air. Sales of individual apartments will begin in September, with asking prices of around $3,000 per square foot. The smallest, at 1,330 square feet, would cost about $4 million and the largest, a 12,900-square-foot villa, $38.7 million.
The article says there is also a Dynamic Tower planned to be built in Moscow. It sounds like the tower would make the people inside it feel dizzy and possibly sick but the builders say the motion will be too slow for people to notice.
Wouldn't people get dizzy? No, says Fisher. The rotations will be slow enough that no one will notice.
With so many moving parts, wouldn't the building be a maintenance nightmare? Fisher said the building's modular construction will allow easy access to parts that need to be replaced.
Skeptics believe the tower sounds too complex to be built so we will see if this tower ever appears. If it is actually built we will also be curious to see if any of the people that go inside it later lose their lunch.
Dubai is quickly becoming the city of tomorrow. It is already full of architectural marvels from the 
