Moving skyscraper 3434 Responses

Last post: 5 months, 1 week ago | Thread started: Jun 25, 08, 5:17 a.m.

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• creative-

  "The world's first moving building, a 80-storey tower with revolving floors giving an shifting shape, will be built in Dubai, its architect says."

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world…

  Awesome.

  Jun 25, 08, 5:17 a.m. – Permalink

• detritus

  I'm curious to know how they got that Ferrari up there.

  • Or, more to the point - 'why'.
    
    Though, I suspect I know the answer.– detritus1/4

    I suspect you do too.– Jnr_Madison2/4

    I suspect you now, too.– detritus3/4

    Crane?– Jaline4/4

  

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  Dog-earJun 25, 08, 5:18 a.m. – Permalink

• 23kon

  do you guys not keep your ferrari's in your living room?
  tut!
  get with it!

  

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  Dog-earJun 25, 08, 5:21 a.m. – Permalink

• creative-

  How do you get anything in/out when it's moving all the time?

  • a pillar in the middle that's a hallway/elevator room is how they do it for one floor rotating buildings...– eighteen

  

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  Dog-earJun 25, 08, 5:22 a.m. – Permalink

• calculator

  i feel sick just thinking about it

  

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  Dog-earJun 25, 08, 5:25 a.m. – Permalink

• ADP

  Can you imagine trying to work in that, looks nice but seems very stupid

  

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  Dog-earJun 25, 08, 5:27 a.m. – Permalink

• 23kon

  itd be cool if you had control of your own level then you could choose which views you fancied depending on what room you were in.

  but with it being part of a "whole spinning building" would just be shite

  • I think you do have control over your own floor. I think I read that.– Spookytim

  

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  Dog-earJun 25, 08, 5:29 a.m. – Permalink

• logout-fail

  I wonder if you lived in that all your life whether you would grow up leaning to one side

  

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  Dog-earJun 25, 08, 5:29 a.m. – Permalink

• Jnr_Madison

  I feel like I'm fucking spinning most of the time anyway, so this would just add to the noise in my head.

  • Unless it span you the other way and canceled out the noise in your head– creative-

  

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  Dog-earJun 25, 08, 5:30 a.m. – Permalink

• uncle_helv

  I can see it's aesthetic merits, cascading movement and the idea of an ever changing vista but surely it would be a bit disorientating to be constantly moving.

  

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  Dog-earJun 25, 08, 5:31 a.m. – Permalink

• Bluejam

  

  • That was my first thought as well.– nath202

  

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  Dog-earJun 25, 08, 5:34 a.m. – Permalink

• mrdobolina

  I think it said it would take 3 hours to make a complete turn.

  • maybe not, I may have thought I read that– mrdobolina1/2

    that makes sense. there are buildings with rotating top floors/domes and they are very slow.– Jaline2/2

  

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  Dog-earJun 25, 08, 6:30 a.m. – Permalink

• utopian1

  This was announced 9 months ago and the BBC is just picking this up? Must be a slow newsday in the UK

  • Yup– logout-fail

  

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  Dog-earJun 25, 08, 6:58 a.m. – Permalink

• Fariska

  What about gaining the control of the rotating engine and playing with it? That would be funny.

  • Or, at least, a movie featuring Steven Segal.– Fariska

  

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  Dog-earJun 25, 08, 7 a.m. – Permalink

• _niko

  good luck with the plumbing. Engineers really have their work cut out for them... But then again if they can fake a moon landing, anything's possible

  • true.– Jaline1/2

    that was a video, this is a gigantic building that will actually exist– eighteen2/2

  

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  Dog-earJun 25, 08, 7:15 a.m. – Permalink

• moth

  Can it dodge planes?

  

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  Dog-earJun 25, 08, 7:16 a.m. – Permalink

• Jaline

  It's about time things get more experimental with architecture.

  

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  Dog-earJun 25, 08, 7:16 a.m. – Permalink

• D_Dot

  In a world just coming to grips with the "green" reality, is a building that sucks up energy really what we need?

  • I read it's incredibly green isn't it?– moth1/2

    Really? I can't imagine that thing NOT using energy to make it move. i mean it may be wind powered for all I know. but will the machines that construct it be wind powered as well? lol– D_Dot2/2

  

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  Dog-earJun 25, 08, 7:26 a.m. – Permalink

• moth

  "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."

  • Hmmm... neat!– D_Dot1/2

    now if i would've actually read the other responses....– jaylarson2/2

  

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  Dog-earJun 25, 08, 7:28 a.m. – Permalink

• Jaline

  I'm pretty sure it would rotate so slowly that no one inside would notice.

  

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  Dog-earJun 25, 08, 7:29 a.m. – Permalink

• jaylarson

  so how will this be powered? coal? oil? it better be fekkin solar with the climate in dubai....

  • wind - says so in the vid– elpaso1/3

    cool!– jaylarson2/3

    sand– utopian13/3

  

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  Dog-earJun 25, 08, 7:32 a.m. – Permalink