Some interesting, and potentially exciting, news from the world of architecture this week following the announcement of the construction of “the world’s first building in motion”. Italian architect David Fisher revealed his plans this past Tuesday to build an 80-story skyscraper in Dubai that would feature constantly revolving floors, resulting in a building structure that is constantly changing its shape. But it’s innovative features don’t end there.

Giant wind turbines will be installed in between each floor that, in conjunction with the installation of solar panels, are expected to not only generate enough electricity to power the whole building – including the movement of all the floors – but also enough electricity to power some of the surrounding buildings. The floors holding the penthouses will have the additional feature of allowing its occupants to control the rate of rotation by voice command, rotating their floor from one to three hours for a full rotation. Penthouse owners also get the unheard of luxury of using an elevator to bring their car up to their floor to park it (guess that’s one way to shorten the distance you’d have to walk to unload the groceries from your car).

Naturally, the building of such a unique building is bound to be unusual. Fisher’s plan for constructing these buildings (in addition to the one in Dubai, he has plans to build one in Moscow as well) is to use Click here to continue reading »”Revolving Skyscrapers – Has the future finally arrived?”