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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: MrAngryFace on June 26, 2008, 11:22:20 AM

Title: I assume nothing in this building will be on wheels
Post by: MrAngryFace on June 26, 2008, 11:22:20 AM: (http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/27542/thumbs/s-DUBAI-SWIRLING-BUILDING-large.jpg)

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NEW YORK -- An Italian architect said he is poised to start construction on a new skyscraper in Dubai that will be "the world's first building in motion," an 80-story tower with revolving floors that give it an ever-shifting shape.

The spinning floors, hung like rings around an immobile cement core, would offer residents a constantly changing view of the Persian Gulf and the city's futuristic skyline.

A few penthouse villas would spin on command using a voice-activated computer. The motion of the rest of the building would be choreographed in patterns that could be altered over time.

Speaking at a news conference in New York on Tuesday, the building's designer, David Fisher, declared that his tower will revolutionize the way skyscrapers are made -- a claim that might strike some as excessively bold.

Read more about the swirling skyscraper or scroll down for photos and video

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/25/dubais-moving-skyscraper_n_109274.html

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Title: Re: I assume nothing in this building will be on wheels
Post by: Reb on June 26, 2008, 12:05:17 PM: Maybe one rotation takes a day? Otherwise it would be sickening.
Title: Re: I assume nothing in this building will be on wheels
Post by: Cormacaroni on June 26, 2008, 12:06:43 PM: Wow, an eternally shifting view of sand in all directions *golf clap*
Title: Re: I assume nothing in this building will be on wheels
Post by: Reb on June 26, 2008, 12:07:26 PM: What does a golf clap look like?

Why are people on message board so obsessed with it?
Title: Re: I assume nothing in this building will be on wheels
Post by: Crushed on June 26, 2008, 12:14:35 PM: Quote from: Rebiak on June 26, 2008, 12:07:26 PM
What does a golf clap look like?

Why are people on message board so obsessed with it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf_clap
Title: Re: I assume nothing in this building will be on wheels
Post by: duckman2000 on June 26, 2008, 12:14:48 PM: Is anyone getting an uneasy feeling from all these new groundbreaking feats in architecture? I have a feeling one of these buildings are going to collapse, and mark the end of this era of incredible confidence.
Title: Re: I assume nothing in this building will be on wheels
Post by: Reb on June 26, 2008, 12:16:50 PM: Or a plane is gonna crash into it, or something like that.
Title: Re: I assume nothing in this building will be on wheels
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on June 26, 2008, 12:18:26 PM: Anyone remember the movie cube?
Title: Re: I assume nothing in this building will be on wheels
Post by: Raban on June 26, 2008, 12:23:36 PM: Quote from: duckman2000 on June 26, 2008, 12:14:48 PM
Is anyone getting an uneasy feeling from all these new groundbreaking feats in architecture? I have a feeling one of these buildings are going to collapse, and mark the end of this era of incredible confidence.

Prolly.
Title: Re: I assume nothing in this building will be on wheels
Post by: Tauntaun on June 26, 2008, 03:02:35 PM: This will not end well. It looks like Janga though and that's cool.
Title: Re: I assume nothing in this building will be on wheels
Post by: Joe Molotov on June 26, 2008, 03:05:48 PM: Dubai's just going batshit crazy with all that oil money. :lol
Title: Re: I assume nothing in this building will be on wheels
Post by: Phoenix Dark on June 26, 2008, 03:22:45 PM: Buster and Lucille should get married there
Title: Re: I assume nothing in this building will be on wheels
Post by: Tauntaun on June 26, 2008, 03:23:45 PM: Quote from: Amber Lambchops on June 26, 2008, 03:22:45 PM
Buster and Lucille should get married there

In the AD movie.
Title: Re: I assume nothing in this building will be on wheels
Post by: xnikki118x on June 26, 2008, 07:40:41 PM: Quote from: Rebiak on June 26, 2008, 12:05:17 PM
Maybe one rotation takes a day? Otherwise it would be sickening.

That's what I was thinking. Because seriously, I get motion sickness in the backs of cars. I'd pule everywhere in a moving building like that.
Title: Re: I assume nothing in this building will be on wheels
Post by: CajoleJuice on June 26, 2008, 07:50:36 PM: Quote from: Genghis Cohen on June 26, 2008, 03:04:13 PM
Dubai is the world's monument to unnecessary and distinguished mentally-challenged excess.
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Title: Re: I assume nothing in this building will be on wheels
Post by: Bildi on June 26, 2008, 09:02:55 PM: Quote from: Crushed on June 26, 2008, 12:14:35 PM
Quote from: Rebiak on June 26, 2008, 12:07:26 PM
What does a golf clap look like?

Why are people on message board so obsessed with it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf_clap

Oh wow, they actually reference Men At Work as popularising it. I had no idea.

(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r89/Bildi777/2nd%20Gifs/golfclap.gif)

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Quote from: CajoleJuice on June 26, 2008, 07:50:36 PM
(http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb219/CajoleJuice/georgecomic2.jpg)

Great avatar. :-*