Trippy! A building where each floor rotates!
 

There is a video at the BBC article.

Ah, those poor poor people in Dubai, I think we should have a raffle to raise some money for em. Next they'll have their own space shuttle fleet, complete with solid gold toilets.

Cool building though.........:cool:

Thats pretty trippy. I wonder how noisy those turbines would be tho, having one on top and on the bottom of each floor. I'd imagine a lot of vibration and random wear and tear from the rotation would cause a bit of a problem with cost of maintenance.. but th en again Dubai isn't exactly poor. Stuff will probably wear out and grind down at some point.. but again, Dubai does have a lot of oil to lube that thing up.. hmm...

Still trippy.

I'd live there. But there are logistical things that are fairly unclear.

Okay, so you wake up in the morning and don't know what direction your bed is facing. Okay, fine.

But then you go to leave your apartment... How does that work, exactly? Your door opens maybe onto a fixed column that has elevators in it? And signs pointing you toward the elevators, because there's no telling where on that fixed column your door will open...

How do plumbing and electrical services get supplied to your rotating apartment deck? I could imagine a brush-and-stator system for getting electricity to the apartments, although that would take a lot of maintenance and is frankly an ugly solution. I can't fathom how plumbing and sewer hookups would work.

Actually, Dubai itself doesn't have much oil remaining, that's why they're trying to diversify their economy so much. Abu Dhabi, the largest state in the UAE, has most of the reserves. Of course, a lot of the oil money does end up in Dubai.

Anyway, this looks like it would be a maintenance nightmare.. But it does fit the boomtown spirit of Dubai.

very strange..........xoxoxoo

wow first revolving building about which i hear now so can u tell me how its work and which construction group establish that one

I've really been trying to puzzle this out since I wrote it. And I know there are other rotating buildings, so I'm sure it's a solved problem, but for the life of me I can't see how you'd get electricity and water/sewer service to the rotating apartments. Anybody know?

And I've been returning to this thread to see if anyone answers it. Since no one has yet, Google found me: Swivel joint apparatus and method for utility supply to a rotatable building - US Patent 7032353. I'll try to read it later.