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Mar

Stumbling Friday – The rotating tower


Today’s 5th stumble brought me to a post about a new concept for a tower to be built in Dubai.
It seems like lately every prestigious project is taking place in Dubai, but hey they got more than enough money.
The latest project they’re working on is a Rotating Tower that will be in constant motion. Forty-eight wind turbines fitted between each rotating floors as well as the solar panels positioned on the roof of the building will produce energy from wind and the sunlight, with no risk of pollution.

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I think this project is just a showcase to get their architecture company in the picture so they can get their hands on another project. This one doesn’t seem to be realizable in my opinion.
But who am I?
A few months back Dubai got in the news for building the highest tower in the world, the Burj Dubai.
And they’re also planning on building a 1200 meters high skyscraper, where will it stop?

Do you think the idea of the rotating tower is realizable?
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I’m glad to see my previous stumbling Friday post got some comments and to thank them I stumbled their sites.

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5 Responses to "Stumbling Friday – The rotating tower"


Posted by kexbrown  on  Mar 08  at  05:05 AM

I am not an engineer or an architect, but I agree, that this design appears rather suspect. I can’t imagine the bottom floors being able to rotate with the amount of weight from the floors above. Another interesting Stumble from you!

Posted by Haney  on  Mar 10  at  12:04 PM

Dubai do have nice buildings like such. But with that design, I guess they must implement a concrete physics methods/formula to have that tower built :D

Posted by Beth  on  Mar 11  at  04:58 PM

Does anyone else feel like Dubai releases plans for some extravagant building every other day?  This building looks very cool, but it just doesn’t seem possible.

Posted by Rajaram S  on  Mar 18  at  03:57 PM

Anything is possible in Dubai!
I had been to Dubai 2 yrs ago on a short vacation (going again this April). The boom there is beyond imagination. I was awestruck by the indoor ski slope.
At that time, they had lot in plan - Hydropolis, a chess city, completion of the marina, the world’s biggest mall.
They just think of something and go ahead and implement !

Posted by Shanker Bakshi  on  Mar 22  at  06:35 PM

This idea of rotating tower is out of my mind, The big question is , do we really need it. Okay go ahead if it buzzing your mind.


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