AN architect has come up with a crazy plan for a spinning skyscraper that would be taller than The Shard.
In a world first, David Fisher designed a 1,273ft tower with 80 floors that would rotate 360 degrees in both directions.
The idea was dreamed up by architect Fisher from Dynamic Architecture – who called it the Dynamic Tower.
Fisher revealed that the concept of a moving skyscraper came to him while he was looking out of the Olympic Tower in New York over a decade ago.
“I noticed that from a certain spot, you could see the East River and the Hudson River, both sides of Manhattan,” he wrote on his company’s website.
“That is when I thought to myself: ‘Why don’t we rotate the entire floor?
“That way, everybody can see both the East River and the Hudson River, as well as Saint Patrick’s Cathedral!’”
The crazy idea was first put forward by Fisher in 2008, though it was never picked up on until Dubai heard about it.
Here it would the one of the tallest buildings in the city, adding yet another skyscraper to the busy skyline.
As well as having rotating floors, Fisher dreamed up several other quirky features of the building.
These included allowing residents of the apartments inside the tower to rotate their homes with voice-activation technology, putting 79 horizontal wind turbines between each floor, and having solar panels on the roof to power the building.
This would mean the building’s shape would constantly change and shift per the desires of its residents so it would never look the same.
One of the other bizarre features is that residents could park their cars in a special lift inside the building that would transport their vehicles up the core of the building to a parking space next to their apartments.
The price of each apartment could range from £3.2 million to £32.1 million, with an estimated building cost of around $1.2 billion, according to Dubai Experience.
The tower would also have a 6-star hotel called the Dynamic Hotel where “hotel guests will have the opportunity to help design the building – but also the skyline of the city – and to choose the view according to their own wishes.”
To push the boundaries of architecture even further, Fisher wants to build the skyscraper using a new method.
1. Burj Khalifa, Dubai – 2,717ft
2. Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia – 2,227ft
3. Shanghai Tower, Shanghai – 2,073ft
4. Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower, Saudi Arabia – 1,972ft
5. Ping An International Finance Centre, Shenzhen – 1,966ft
6. Lotte World Tower, Seoul – 1,819ft
7. One World Trade Center, New York – 1,776ft
8. Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre, Guangzhou – 1740ft
8. Tianjin CTF Finance Centre, Tianjin – 1,740ft
10. China Zun, Beijing – 1,731ft
It would see each floor assembled at a factory before being attached at the site of the tower.
Fisher said: “An architect should design buildings that adjust to life.
“They should adapt to our space, our functionalities and our needs that change continuously – and even to our sense of beauty, itself in continuous motion.”
The Dynamic Tower was set to open on Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai in 2020 in time for the World Expo in the United Arab Emirates but the project has since been cancelled.
No official announcement has been made about the construction of the tower.
According to Architectuul, the project was halted “due to the financial crisis” and “no further details on the project’s structural design or its feasibility have been published.”
Meanwhile, there were plans for Europe to get its tallest skyscraper built in a tiny rural village in the middle of nowhere that could be seen from 40 miles away.
The Bestseller Tower was due to stand over the Danish region of Brande with initial concepts saying it would be a whopping 1,050ft in height – a whole 34ft taller than The Shard.
The project has been shelved for the future after the pandemic halted construction.
Plans have also emerged for a major change to the New York skyline with a Big Bend skyscraper in Manhattan which would be the longest building in the world.
It would be 4,000 ft in one continuous upside-down U.
Meanwhile, London has been given the go-ahead to build an enormous 74-storey skyscraper that is over 1,000ft tall.
