A room with a view?

Revolving floors … 

Revolving buildings are not breaking news these days, despite them being an amazing display of architectural genius, but Dubai will be seeing something the likes of which has never been seen before!

 

Many cities across the world are the proud owners of revolving restaurants, attracting great numbers to experience this unique style of dining. The Skylon Towers at Niagra Falls, The New York Marriott, The Space Needle in Seattle and, until 1980 when it closed, the BT Tower in London.

 

But more recent years have seen a new development in this area of engineering, rotating apartment buildings!

 

360 Degree views … 

You really would have a room with a view if you were to purchase a home in the world’s first independently revolving building. The apartment building in the Brazilian city of Curitiba revolves independently, 360 degrees to the left, or right. Each of the eleven apartments occupies a whole floor of the building, and takes an hour to complete a rotation, activated by voice commands.

 

However, the world’s first moving building, an 80-storey tower with revolving floors giving a shifting shape, will be built in the rapidly developing Dubai.

 

Dubai’s Dynamic Tower … 

The Dynamic Tower design is made up of 80 pre-fabricated apartments which will spin independently of one another.  It’s the first building that rotates, moves, and changes shape. The building never looks the same, not once. The apartments would spin a full 360 degrees, at voice command, around a central column by means of 79 giant power-generating wind turbines located between each floor.

 

The apartments, which will take between one and three hours to make a complete rotation, will cost from $3.7m to $36m. So, if you want a different view every time you look out the window, you better start saving!