Moving skyscraper
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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.
- detritus0
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.detritus - I suspect you do too.Jnr_Madison
- I suspect you now, too.detritus
- Crane?Jaline
- Or, more to the point - 'why'.
- 23kon0
do you guys not keep your ferrari's in your living room?
tut!
get with it!
- calculator0
i feel sick just thinking about it
- ADP0
Can you imagine trying to work in that, looks nice but seems very stupid
- ********0
I wonder if you lived in that all your life whether you would grow up leaning to one side
- Jnr_Madison0
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 headcreative-
- uncle_helv0
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.
- mrdobolina0
I think it said it would take 3 hours to make a complete turn.
- maybe not, I may have thought I read thatmrdobolina
- that makes sense. there are buildings with rotating top floors/domes and they are very slow.Jaline
- ********0
This was announced 9 months ago and the BBC is just picking this up? Must be a slow newsday in the UK
- Fariska0
What about gaining the control of the rotating engine and playing with it? That would be funny.
- ********0
Can it dodge planes?
- Jaline0
It's about time things get more experimental with architecture.
- D_Dot0
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?********
- 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? lolD_Dot
- I read it's incredibly green isn't it?
- ********0
"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."
- Jaline0
I'm pretty sure it would rotate so slowly that no one inside would notice.