Wednesday, April 18, 2007

go Dubai go! braaaavo!

this is what they are doing.. walah good for them :)












[Dubai towers]

Dubai Puts a New Spin on Skyscrapers

Planned 68-Story Rotating Tower Part of Massive Construction Spree

In skyscraper-crazy Dubai, tall isn't enough. In a design to be unveiled today in the oil-rich emirate, David Fisher, an Italian-Israeli architect, has dreamed up a 68-story combination hotel, apartment and office tower where the floors would rotate 360 degrees. Each floor would rotate independently, creating a constantly changing architectural form.
Each story of the tower would be shaped like a doughnut and be attached to a center core housing elevators, emergency stairs and other utilities. Wind turbines placed in gaps between the doughnuts would generate electricity.
The doughnuts won't rotate fast enough to give guests upset stomachs. A single rotation would take around 90 minutes. "It's quite slow," says Mr. Fisher.

from wsj.com

10 comments:

Unknown said...

reserve for me the penthouse

this is amazing

The Simper said...

with the atmost pleasure, SimperLand Inc would be providing mosan mosan the yin yan the reservation of the previously requested penthouse in our jewl property of choice.

Anonymous said...

omg! wanasa!


the architect fanan!

Anonymous said...

And whats the name italian smart guy???? :P

The Simper said...

eshda3wa,
yup.. totally wow!



cixo,
yup yup.. totally OMG!



Deem,
totally didn't get ur question ;)

Anonymous said...

rotating skyscraper its daring..and scary but u know what

just the thought makes me dizzy :(

Shoush said...
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Shoush said...

Allaaaah! Amazing! I can't wait to get in it!

العين الساهرة said...

Bravo Dubai

والله يخلف علينا

I did't know how to say it in English :)

. said...

sej shay `3areeeeeeeeb ,, chenna abraj lq8 tdooor ba3ad ;) la la la shay 3omry matakhayalta ,, sej bravoo dubai ,, ma sha`a allah