NEW YORK (Reuters) - After taking in an expansive view of Manhattan from a friend’s apartment, architect David Fisher came up with a way to make the most of a good location — a rotating building.
Fisher now hopes to build his so-called dynamic towers — prefabricated sun- and wind-powered skyscrapers that will keep changing shape as each floor rotates around a central axis — in Moscow and Dubai by the end of 2010.
A 70-floor building has received planning approval for Moscow, and an 80-floor building in Dubai is awaiting approval. Instead of just one revolving floor, like other buildings around the world, every floor in Fisher’s towers will rotate.
Wild. Too bad it’s going to cost about $3,000 per square foot to buy one of those condos. Pretty sick idea though, can’t wait to see what it’ll look like in real life.
