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Here's something non-renovation related. If you thought a revolving restaurant like the one in the KL Tower was cool, wait until you read about a skyscraper that can revolve each floor!
New York-based architect David Fisher's Dynamic Group has announced plans to build an 80-storey Dynamic Tower in Dubai which they call the 'world's first building in motion'. This shape shifting skyscraper will be 420 meters (1,380 feet) tall. For comparison, the 88 storey Kuala Lumpur Twin Towers (KLCC) is 452.0 meters (1,482.9 feet) tall.
Each floor will rotate independently at different speeds powered by wind turbines fitted between each floor. This results in the tower having a unique and forever evolving shape. The Dynamic Tower can allow the sun to both rise and set from the same view, be adjusted to the season, the weather, or to capture a special moment.
The first 20 floors will be offices, floors 21 to 35 will be a luxury hotel, floor 36 through 70 will be residential apartments, and the top 10 floors will be luxury villas. The price of the apartments (if you have to ask...) is USD$3,000 per square foot. This makes each unit range in price from about USD$4 million to USD$40 million. The apartments will range in size from 124 square meters (1,330 square feet), to Villas of 1,200 square meters (12,900 square feet) complete with a parking space inside the apartment.
From Dynamic Architecture's website:
Luxury penthouse villas, which will be over 1,000 square meters (11,000 square feet), will be completely custom-made to fulfill individual buyer's personal needs, they will also include an indoor swimming pool, voice activated features, demotic control systems, built in phone system and any other special desire, all custom made.
Bathrooms will be preassembled at the Leonardo da Vinci factory in Italy, part of the Dynamic Group and will be made of precious Italian marble, sauna, Turkish bath, chromatography and sound therapy, a real treat.
Villa's residents will have the possibility to drive directly into the building were [sic] a special elevator take their car to their floor and park at the entrance to their Villa's.
The Dynamic Tower will offer every resident constantly changing views, a voice activated control system, state-of-the-art design details, high quality Italian made finishing, sophisticated electronic devices.
Furthermore, the Dynamic Tower will be self powered. From Dynamic Architecture's website:
The building generates electricity from wind turbines mounted horizontally between each floor, eighty story building will have up to seventy nine wind turbines, making it a true green power plant while traditional vertical wind turbines have some environmental negative impact, including obstruction of views and the need for roads to build and maintain them, the Dynamic Tower's wind turbines are practically invisible and extremely quiet due to their special shape and the carbon fibre material they are made of.
Another environmentally green element of the Dynamic Tower is the photovoltaic cells that will be placed on the roof of each rotating floor to produce solar energy, approximately 20% of each roof will be exposed to the sun, so a building that has 80 roofs will equal the roofing space of 10 similar size buildings.
Construction of this amazing building is planned to be completed in year 2010.
Further links:
Video on CNN
Dynamic Architecture homepage
Dynamic Tower brochure
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