Problem with this it, Mr Fisher doesn’t own the patent on this. I would be careful.
Posted by Rob on 11/02/2007 at 08:28 PM
Daffy in Dubai
Friday, October 19, 2007 - 12:06 pm
There is clearly too much money sloshing around in Dubai:
In skyscraper–crazy Dubai, tall isn’t enough. In a design to be unveiled Wednesday 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.
Mr. Fisher’s isn’t the first plan for a rotating tower in Dubai. Last year, a local developer showed off plans for a 30–story 200–unit condominium tower that would rotate one revolution per day. Solar panels would drive the rotation mechanism.
It is hard to say whether the plans are simply rotating pies in the sky – or projects that will actually be erected. But given what has been built in Dubai already, anything seems possible so long as oil prices remain high.
New rotating Donut tower for Dubai
The Dubai Life
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