Dynamic Tower
A video of the cool Da Vinci Tower, aka the Dynamic Tower, which is to be built in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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2 Posted 495 days ago by Tefkros
It would be a wonder of architecture, but i don't think that this could be habitable.
4 Posted 495 days ago by ivats
Interesting in this case, i think is how the lifts will be moving in this building
5 Posted 495 days ago by sharkya
That looks sweet... I wonder if you would get used to the spinning all the time.
9 Posted 495 days ago by cannnobaL
1) It's probably impossible to do
2) Humans will never be able to live in such environment without psychological/bioself problems
In the end they'll need pirates to accommodate that thing.
10 Posted 495 days ago by banzemanga
lolz. For the people who live there, at every 3 second the main door at 3 degree northwest and by the time you chase the building the backdoor is in front of you.
11 Posted 495 days ago by rowanc88
g0t motion sickness?
It's not impossible to do, obviously. It just rotates very slowly around the central core. At quickest 6 metres a minute.
So nothing near the video.
still, it'd look damn good.
12 Posted 495 days ago by thief_s
Johnny C:
"The slender building would be energy self-sufficient as the turbines would produce enough electricity to power the entire building and even feed extra power back into the grid, said the Italian architect at the unveiling of the project in New York." and for the rest of you: rotations are planned to complete in 90 minutes, video is sped up for simple understanding of the CONCEPT.
13 Posted 495 days ago by dave9191
Its a cool idea, but I have doubts as to how durable the building would be.
16 Posted 495 days ago by fikazane
ok, about the questoins, a complete 360 rotation will take 3 hours, which means tht the building will rotate 8 times a day, about the energy, it will generate powerr itself using wind power, some new technique, the video explains it inbetween.
18 Posted 494 days ago by Kosmology
First of all, not earthquake proof at all.
Second, how do the lifts work?
Third, horrible waste of energy!
And last but not least, Why the ^@%* would anyone want to pay an extra 10 million dollars to live in a building like that?
20 Posted 494 days ago by richardhalo
The thing is like this: the demo building is made to move fast like that so that the investors would know how the motion of it would be. In real life it will move WAY MUCH SLOWER (when it shows from inside the apartment there's a glitch how slow it'll move). If this building will be constructed - which I have no doubt it will be done - it might become the next of world's seven wonders!
21 Posted 494 days ago by nooitaf
LOL ... i really like the idea of having a Ferrari in my livingroom (00:41) .. wonder how the elevator would handle that 
22 Posted 490 days ago by BombDiggady (moderator)
I just do not see the point of having a building like this.
26 Posted 478 days ago by raverel
for the guys that wonder how the elevators would work i have a sugestion. think about the center axis. it is stable all the time so it could be used among other things for an elevator shaft. and technically speaking the building is fizicaly buildable. and besides it is in UAE, if it is possible they will do it.
28 Posted 475 days ago by 94otto
looks cool, but it probably takes a million volts of electricity a second
29 Posted 474 days ago by Snowball
Do some googling and you can find out everything about the design. Very much metainance and wear probably. Some nice appartment to have if you have also an appartment in miami, new york, los angeles, amsterdam and some other cool places.
34 Posted 470 days ago by KristofferAG
The whole building is built around a core that is not rotating. Every story rotates on it's own. Some stories are divided into multiple flats, while other's are one flat. The elevator will be in the middle. It's easily doable!
36 Posted 174 days ago by Cheezymadman
#22 There is no point. The people of Dubai build stuff like this all the time. Which is why we're paying $3 a gallon for gas.
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1 Posted 495 days ago by caives