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Dubai is at It Again: Shape-shifting Skyscraper in 2010

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  1. Lil Pun

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    http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/06/25/duibai.tower/index.html

    (CNN) -- Ambitious plans to build a revolutionary 420-meter shape-shifting skyscraper in Dubai have been unveiled by architects.

    The 80-story Dynamic Tower, described as the "world's first building in motion," will also be the first skyscraper constructed from prefabricated units, according to a press statement released by New York-based architect David Fisher's Dynamic Group.

    Each floor would be capable of rotating independently, powered by wind turbines fitted between each floor.

    "You can adjust the shape the way you like every given moment," Fisher said. "It's not a piece of architecture somebody designed today and that's it. It remains forever. It's designed by life, shaped by time."

    Apartments will sell for about $3,000 per square foot, making each unit range in price from about $4 million to $40 million. Work on the tower is to be completed by 2010, according to Dynamic's Web site.

    Fisher said that plans to build a second rotating skyscraper in Moscow were at an advanced stage and that the group intended to build a third tower in New York. He said developers and public officials in Canada, Europe and South Korea had also expressed interest in the project.

    But some have expressed skepticism. Fisher has never built a skyscraper before. He says he has teamed up with reputed architects and engineers in the United Kingdom and India.

    Although he has received a development license for construction in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, he has not disclosed the site of the building. The Moscow mayor's office said that it was looking into the project and that a decision had not been made.

    Fisher has called prefabricated construction techniques the "future of architecture" and says they will radically transform 4,000-year-old "brick-on-brick" building methods.

    By using preconstructed parts, Fisher said each story could be built in just seven days, resulting in environmentally cleaner building methods.

    He said that just 600 people on an assembly site and 80 technicians on the construction site would be needed to build the tower, compared with about 2,000 workers for a traditional project of a comparable scale.

    "It is unbelievable that real estate and construction, which is the leading sector of the world economy, is also the most primitive," Fisher is quoted as saying on Dynamic's Web site.
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    "Most workers throughout the world still regularly use trowels that was first used by the Egyptians and then by the Romans. Buildings should not be different than any other product, and from now on they will be manufactured in a production facility."

    Dubai is experiencing a construction boom, with the Burj tower set to claim the title of the world's tallest building when it is completed in 2009. It is already home to the world's largest mall, and despite being in the Middle East, it boasts the largest indoor snow park in the world.
     
    #1 Lil Pun, Jun 25, 2008
  2. ClutchCityReturns

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    What's the worst that could happen?
     
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  3. playlife

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    The building shifts shape to avoid the airplane?
     
    #3 playlife, Jun 26, 2008
  4. Christopher

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    I can already hear the minds of the producers of the next Transformers movie ticking over right now...
     
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  6. Royals Ego

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    dubai -- grinding pigeons since 2010
     
    #6 Royals Ego, Jun 26, 2008
  7. Spacemoth

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    Japan is not gonna let this stand. Get ready for the spaceship-skyscraper.

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  8. MadMax

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    i'm completely and utterly content with never ever never working in a shape-shifting skyscraper.
     
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  9. Lil Pun

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    Well it looks like people will be living in this one. :eek:
     
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    Employee 1: "What's up? What are you doing here? "
    Employee 2: "I am waiting for the stairs to slide back into place."
    Employee 3: "Hi, guys... are the elevators back in place?"
    Employees 1,2: "No. :rolleyes: "
     
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  11. TECH

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    I'm reminded of Metroplex. Transformers was the best. :D
     
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  12. Apollo Creed

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    I bet the elevators and stairs will be in the center of the building and accessible at any time, moving or not. There's no way they'd make a building where you could be potentially trapped without even stairs.
     
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    That's ridiculous, lol. It'd be awkward if those buildings all collapsed within the first week though. A little awkward.
     
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    yeah, but if the floor you need off on is rotating when the elevator gets there, how do you get out of the elevator? Jump very quickly when the opening comes by?
     
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  15. Apollo Creed

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    You ever been on a ride like Thunder River? It's probably just as easy as getting into the little tubes. I doubt it's flying by or anything.
     
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    Haha, right? If it does change shape, you're probably facing imminent death.

    These buildings have so many moving parts. All the toys I ever had with moving parts just broke quicker.

    Are the architects the ones having this global pissing contest or is it the extremely wealthy? There have been a few of these threads recently.
     
    #16 HAYJON02, Jun 26, 2008
  17. rrj_gamz

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    Well, with all that Oil $$$, they can make whatever they want...
     
    #17 rrj_gamz, Jun 26, 2008
  18. Lil Pun

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    Apparently they don't have a lot of oil money, well they do but it isn't their own it is just invested in their part of the world.
     
    #18 Lil Pun, Jun 26, 2008
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    Tallest Skyscraper in the World Almost Completed, Defies Belief

    The Burj Dubai tower, the tallest skyscraper in the world, is about to be completed. To celebrate it, David Hobcote has taken a series of amazing high resolution pictures from the air which give an exact impression of the breathtaking, massive scale of this building. Inside, it looks like a set from Blade Runner or the interior of the Death Star. Corrected and updated: David Hobcote told us how he did these great photos:

    http://gizmodo.com/5038788/tallest-skyscraper-in-the-world-almost-completed-defies-belief
     
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  20. Dubious

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    My question would be "what's the point?"

    There doesn't seem to be any limiting factor in the Middle East as far as acreage that you'd have to spend all the extra construction costs to go up. It's not hemmed in like Manhattan, Hong Kong or Singapore. Just go cover you up a million square feet of low rise over some desert.

    The real problem with ultra-high rise is getting all the people to and from the building. Will there be a multi-train subway station in the basement of this behemoth?
     
    #20 Dubious, Aug 19, 2008
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