Sunday, 13 May 2007
Rotating doughnuts
It might work in Dubai, but would a merry-go-round building in the sky cut it in the windy city?
It might work in Dubai, but would a merry-go-round building in the sky cut it in the windy city?Architect David Fisher has designed a 68-story hotel and apartment building currently being constructed in Dubai where the floors would rotate 360 degrees. Each floor would rotate independently, creating a constantly changing architectural form. Each story of the tower would be shaped like a doughnut and a single rotation would take around 90 minutes. (more)
This is what we have come to expect in Dubai but Fisher was in Chicago recently and has said to identified a site near the NBC Tower just east of Michigan Avenue on the river with backing to boot. Now how's that for a visual treat in the skyline?
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