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- kingjaydub, on 11/10/2008, -3/+22You'd have to get to work an hour early every day just to find your office. Every time you get off the elevator your office is in a different direction.
- MisterGnome, on 06/13/2009, -3/+21"I'm bored"
"Want to go make that building look like a penis?" - ohnoerino, on 11/10/2008, -2/+15Only in Dubai, oh wait...
- SkinnerBox, on 11/10/2008, -0/+12Awesome. My only question is - why?
- mklopez, on 11/10/2008, -2/+13As a Miami resident, all I can say is: hurry up to build this before the next hurricane season starts!
- inactive, on 11/10/2008, -2/+12You dated?
YOU MEAN YOU LEFT A CHICK WHO LIVED IN A ROTATING HOUSE? - llamarama7, on 11/10/2008, -1/+11What Miami really needs is an island condominium community shaped like a map of the world.
- Nick217, on 11/10/2008, -2/+12i wonder if the International Institute for Motion Sickness and Rotation Fatigue Research (MSFR) will finally open its Miami office.
- coolian, on 11/10/2008, -0/+9The only answer to that is - why not?
- b9gh47q, on 11/10/2008, -4/+11The more the merrier.
- MrSquirrel, on 11/10/2008, -3/+10Seems like a monumental waste of energy, just to fulfill somebody's eccentric and useless artistic vision.
- empraptor, on 11/10/2008, -1/+8crazy archtects agree: we do not consume enough energy
- mikeas, on 11/10/2008, -0/+6Doesn't Miami already have several unfinished condo buildings with no financing to complete them?
- wolfing, on 11/10/2008, -1/+7w...wait, aren't we supposed to actually try and *conserve* energy?
- inactive, on 11/10/2008, -0/+6The developers will be disappointed to learn construction workers make in an hour in New York and Miami what Dubai's imported southeast Asian slaves make in a month. Not to mention we have incredibly strict building codes that simply don't exist in the Middle East, and the insurance costs would be astronomical. Just not happening. The architect gets his name in American news a few more times, that's about it.
- leif77, on 11/10/2008, -0/+6It's almost completely solar powered...
- Phersick, on 11/10/2008, -0/+6All you people saying it's an energy waste:
"The Dynamic Tower is environmentally friendly, with the ability to generate electricity for itself as well as other buildings nearby making it the first building designed to be self-powered, it achieves this feat with wind turbines fitted between each rotating floor. An 80-story building will have up to 79 wind turbines, making it a true green power plant." - b3and1p, on 11/10/2008, -5/+10Isn't this the one in Dubai that had the huge propellers in between each floor? I dunno, sounds like it could be a very loud living situation.
I dated a girl that had a family that owned a rotating house in Novato, CA. It looked like a UFO. Pretty awesome if you ask me. It did make a fair amount of noise when you rotated it though. - MMATapout7, on 11/10/2008, -2/+7this should be very cool, miami is an amazing city to start with.. :D
- jdduran, on 11/10/2008, -2/+6Well, I'll be surprise if this thing happens considering the state of the economy and the real estate market -- even more, so in Florida.
- diggNewton, on 11/10/2008, -0/+4Shopped.
- myhandleondigg, on 11/10/2008, -1/+5Miami's skyline was built on cocaine in the 80s and supermodels in the 90s. There ain't ***** there now, unless MTV holds another award show and ships the homeless off a hundred miles away again.
- LoneJeeper, on 11/10/2008, -0/+4if it rotates opposite the Coriolis effect, it should be hurricane proof... right?
- S201, on 11/10/2008, -1/+5Jenga anyone?
- wolfing, on 11/10/2008, -0/+4or if it rotates too fast, maybe it'll create hurricanes of its own!
- the0ther, on 11/10/2008, -2/+6miami can't afford this. miami is trashy and poor. you suck florida.
- BobbyMC, on 11/10/2008, -0/+4Hmm, this sounds like a setup for a Michael Bay action movie.
Interestingly enough, that came to mind before I made the connection and realized this thing is itself a giant transformer.
Now all I see is Sam Witwicky sliding down a rotating tower while dodging gunshots from a human ally of the Decepticons. Meanwhile Optimus Prime and Megatron are flipping around on the other side fighting hand to hand.
And a terrorist chose that day to suicide bomb it, and comedically gets beaten to death when Optimus Prime catches the plane with his spare hand.
And Megan Fox's clothes fall off. - inactive, on 11/10/2008, -3/+6i thought we were scared ***** the last time skyscrapers moved?
- tjClassic82, on 11/10/2008, -1/+4That is wild... talk about getting sea sick!
- weakinduhknees, on 11/10/2008, -0/+3Downtown Miami is home to the country's 3rd largest skyline. I have always thought of it as awe-inspiring. This would certainly add a new level of intrigue to an already booming metropolitan skyline.
- smoger, on 11/10/2008, -0/+3philadelphia plz...
- b3and1p, on 11/10/2008, -0/+3Haha naw she rented it out. I did stay in it once though :)
And trust me I wasn't going to give up the spinning house, she broke up with me! - GeeksSpeakFont, on 11/10/2008, -1/+4Wow that's really cool looking
- b3and1p, on 11/10/2008, -0/+3you just shut your mouth Mr.
- armakaryk, on 11/10/2008, -0/+3solar and wind powered.
- bman85, on 11/10/2008, -0/+2To express our creativity as a human race... should we all really live and work in boxes?
Perhaps if we were robots, but why not live in something that expresses our dynamic personality and human nature.
Lack of creativity could be the downfall our our civilization. - hokie47, on 11/10/2008, -2/+4Why haven't we built anything to replace the Twin Towers yet? I say we build them bigger and more bad ass than before.
- jcds172, on 11/10/2008, -0/+2The reason it moves is because of the wind turbines, if it didn't move like that it would have enough currents to power turbines thus powering the whole building and others around it! People criticize everything they don't understand!
- opafaf, on 11/10/2008, -0/+2She made a fair amount of noise?
- gerrylazlo, on 11/11/2008, -0/+1jcds172: I'm going to criticize your comment because I don't understand it. Are you saying the turbines are powered by the rotation of the building, and not the other way around? The energy from the turbines is not turning each floor?
- corytheboyd, on 11/10/2008, -0/+1Nobody seems to realize that the TRUE waste of energy with this monstrosity- Manufacturing the parts needed to build it and the extremely complicated construction process would be the true waste of energy. And what a waste of energy it would be.
- empraptor, on 11/11/2008, -0/+1lol yes brilliant! let's put solar panels on the building... then use it to ROTATE IT. Because it's the cool thing to do. Forget lighting or air conditioning or any countless other things it could have been used for.
- flashthom, on 11/11/2008, -0/+1Your night life is pretty amazing. Coming from LA, I'm jealous of the fact that your bars are open till at least 4AM.
- KellyIrish19, on 11/10/2008, -0/+1That is awesome
- m0llusk, on 11/10/2008, -0/+1Here's a super modern architecture idea: Sell the units before building them.
- BMR777, on 11/10/2008, -0/+1Imagine trying to take a piss as that building is rotating. Brace yourself!
- YogiWanKenobi, on 11/10/2008, -0/+1The Miami skyline is very awe-inspiring especially when viewed at sunset from the Gables.
- kingjaydub, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1That's what I'm saying. In my office when I give people directions to my office I say "get off the elevator and go to your right."
You won't be able to do that here. You'll be like "Get off the elevator and take a right... you'll eventually find it." - Apocalyptic0n3, on 11/10/2008, -0/+1This made the frontpage in like August...
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