They sure like to build some wacky stuff in Dubai.
Fox is reporting that the newest addition to the Dubai landscape will be “the world’s first building in motion,” an 80-story tower with revolving floors that give it an ever-shifting shape.
That’s, right a shape shifting tower.
Goes a little something like this here…
Looks like a massive game of Jenga, doesn’t it? This thing will be over 1,300 feet tall; taller than the Empire State Building.
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…
Giant wind turbines installed between every floor, he said, will generate enough electricity to power the entire building, and lifts will allow penthouse residents to park their cars right in their apartments…
Fisher said each floor will be prefabricated in an Italian factory, then shipped to the site to be attached to the core. Assembling a building in this fashion, he said, will require only 80 technicians and take only 20 months, saving tens of millions of dollars, for a total cost of $700 million to build…
How would the plumbing hookups work in an apartment that is constantly moving? Fisher said the pipes will connect to the core via attachments similar to the ones used by military aircraft for in-flight refueling.
Wouldn’t people get dizzy? No, says Fisher. The rotations will be slow enough that no one will notice.
With so many moving parts, wouldn’t the building be a maintenance nightmare? Fisher said the building’s modular construction will allow easy access to parts that need to be replaced.
Fisher, is Italian architect David Fisher. A couple of interesting things about Fisher; 1. There is controversy surrounding the authenticity of his self proclaimed credentials. 2. He has no track record.
“I did not design skyscrapers, but I feel ready to do so,” Fisher said.
No problem. This is Dubai we’re talking about and anything goes.
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Pat Darnell and Rug Rats wrote,
Yes but Texas A and M would like to know how many Polish workmen it would take…?
MooPig Journalism and Architecture Department has been running extra shifts to make sure it is available when the news comes out. “We have assembled a team of cracker jack Aggies at an undisclosed location to monitor and report.”
Apparently last night two people were taken into custody. Websites led special agents to an industrial office park in Valparaiso, IN. It turns out all pre-planned as at that location were a man and a woman in their late twenties who had handcuffed themselves to a post in their office. Some say the postal event was recorded of course by live feed webcam. The tiny surveillance cameras were fitted in a small ‘NY ballplayer B. Williams’ bobble head dolls all around the offices.
Back to you in Dubai, Raymond…
Link | June 25th, 2008 at 10:30 am
MooPig News Flash Department wrote,
This just in:
Other nifty elements included in the realization of a high rise room with still no view other than sand… is that plumbing is a bygone issue, since penthouse dwellers who are this rich have no stink to their bodily wastes.
Stay tuned for late breaking architectural news.
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Link | June 25th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Pribek wrote,
I think you’re fronting P.D. This whole thing has to be gnawing at your core values like a mutant lab rat through a box of Slim Jims.
My guess is that you are torn between contacting Ninja demolition experts and catching a red eye to Dubai with an attache full of 40 odd years of renderings in an effort to chase down whatever official on the Italo gravy train pulled the trigger on hiring this cat.
Link | June 25th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Dolph Runhaar CSF/EMI Netherlands wrote,
NEWS FLASH: Dubai, Noon, 26/June/2008 UPDATE
There is a top fuel 1000 horsepower slingshot dragster kept warm and idling 1300 feet from the front door of the ground level. It is a response experiment set up by Dutch Engineers.
It is to make a run on the straight track to the door at the same moment the top floor begins its plummet to the ground floor.
It will help future rescuers gauge their efforts in emergency management intercepts. And therefore the three drivers with the lowest total reaction time + elapsed time will be used. The dragster drivers will be on call for three eight hour shifts, 365/24/7. The experiment starts the day after the spinning condo opens for business.
“Der, the concept is to measure and observe by comparison, which will reach ground floor first – the top floor, or the dragster,” explained Chief Safety Engineer Dolph Runhaar.
Runhaar told MooPig correspondents he is employed by Lords of London.
Dolph Runhaar CSF/EMI Netherlands’s last blog post..[[Click to Help]]
Link | June 26th, 2008 at 1:20 am
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
Correction –
You are right as usual, I’m a little jealous. Sour grapes brings only shame and wrath. It reminds me that I will never out-run my European roots of wanton architecture dancing orgies. I have to remember my place and dance with the one who brung me.
Thanks again big ‘un.
Link | June 26th, 2008 at 1:32 am
Pribek wrote,
“I did not implement my European roots of wanton architecture dancing orgies, but I feel ready to do so,”
Somewhere, there exists a contact list that contains direct email addys of officials at the Dubai Ministry of Proposed Wacky Architectural Projects.
Surely, you have some stuff in the can.
Simply email attached renderings until contacted by high level, top secret, International Freemasons.
Link | June 26th, 2008 at 6:46 am
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
Do you think Keefer might be a Freemason? Just a thought. I think I’ll just puff on a Garcia y Vega and cogitate that one for a minute.
So many stray thoughts, such slow fingers… if only I could plug a quarter-inch plug into my head…
I’ll get back to you on that renderings detail. Thanks for the idea.
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Link | June 26th, 2008 at 8:32 am
Pribek wrote,
Keef is without question a member in good standing of the Illuminati.
Take a look at this insightful and thought provoking interview.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=n0xi6MbNvKE
Link | June 26th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Fred Rasputin and Company wrote,
Also, an authentic gondola pilot trained in classic opera comes with every floor. He drives the gizmo’s that turn the individual floors, gets the car out for the residents, watches after pets, maintains the three hole golf course, and looks after the Alpha Romeo Enzione 2000 engines that run the chillers for heating ventilating and air-conditioning in the flats. There was stiff competitions in Italia for the Maintenance positions last year… the position is called “the Mario” and Simon Cowell, il Dulce d’ Cornuto, was contracted to help pick them.
Fred Rasputin and Company’s last blog post..New York. 3 a.m. Blues in C. says the Ad… someone had fun with this one
Link | June 26th, 2008 at 11:09 am
FAux News Headline and Company wrote,
Every Secret needs an Authenticated Relic
David Fisher is not who he says he is. “Dr. Fisher did receive an honorary doctorate in Economics from Pre Deo University, but it has been removed from his bio because he wants to be entirely accurate and cannot be with this information.”
It is an honorary degree given posthumous by Padre Pio, “In situa pro bono deus ex de machina.. va fungull stronzo tu su con bro.. capo d cazzo!” doctorate degree on Econofantasmaica’ : says his publicist.
FAux News Headline and Company’s last blog post..New York. 3 a.m. Blues in C. says the Ad… someone had fun with this one
Link | June 26th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Im Barbra WahWah and your not Company wrote,
I cant be dead because I’m here seeing Keith Richards Live… poster in the background in SF?(para)
I forgot that Hell’s Angels were the security at that concert, they must be freemason too. Wow, if you live long enough all mysteries come to light. Catholic case for long life… good interview.
Yep he is definitely high in the Templar leg duty, maybe the topper. God bless us all!
Im Barbra WahWah and your not Company’s last blog post..New York. 3 a.m. Blues in C. says the Ad… someone had fun with this one
Link | June 26th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Pat Darnell And Friends wrote,
Do you think Barbara Walters had sex with Keith Richards? Have you read her book?
Also, ColdPlay was on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart last week. They played two songs live…
Then Stewart followed that with a segment on architecture…
I’m starting to feel like a phantasmagorias. I add new ideas, facts and figures with sleep apnea, and where do I hide? I am now the fully media managed cornucopia of caucaphony.
Then when you showed this …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…
…well it is almost the end. “Everything is getting dark.”
I think the Dude ate the cat, because he’s even in my head.
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Link | June 28th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Pribek wrote,
Do you think Barbara Walters had sex with Louis Sullivan?
Link | June 28th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Pribek wrote,
Have you read her book?
No, has Oprah recommended it?
Link | June 28th, 2008 at 10:10 pm