Rotating Tower Dubai
In fact, this is not going to be the only rotating skyscraper
in Dubai. The Times Residences by Glenn Howells Architects is also a
rotating tower with 200 condominium apartments that located in City
of Arabia, and its rotation mechanism driven by solar energy. However,
it’s not rotating individually by each floor, instead whole building
rotate altogether to offer all residents equal view. Rotating speed
is much slower at 1cm per min, making all 200 units able to view 360
degree of its surrounding once every 7days. This tower expected to finish
in 2009.
Fancy living in future world today? Head down to Dubai
in few years time. Dubai, the new booming emerging country already seeing
ambitious real-estate construction activities which built Burj Al Arab,
world’s tallest freestanding hotel in the world, and going to
see world’s tallest building and the world’s tallest freestanding
structure on land in Burj Dubai and Al Burj, are preparing itself to
build more innovative skyscrapers which has futuristic and ahead-of-times
building designs and architecture.