Dynamic tower; powered by sun and wind

Italian architect David Fisher is building his first skyscraper, the Dynamic Tower, and it happens to be one of the most ambitious construction plans since the Pyramid of Khufu. Every floor of the 80-story self-powered building rotates according to voice command, and nearly the entire structure of the $70

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0 million building is pre-fabbed. I caught up with the architect in New York, and he blew my mind again and again.

Fisher was inspired to design the Dynamic Tower during a visit to a friend's top-floor Midtown Manhattan apartment. "I had a view of the Hudson River and East River at the same time, it was beautiful and I wanted to make that feeling accessible to more people." He loves the idea of seeing the sun rise and set in the same room, and considers the building to be four-dimensional. "Time is always changing the shape of the building," he told me.

The rotation takes up to 3 hours (so you're not always spilling your coffee), and gets power from photovoltaic solar cells and 79 wind turbines, one located between each floor. The sy

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stem is meant to create enough energy to power to the entire tower and still have juice to spare for some surrounding buildings. According to Fisher, two of these $700 million futuristic scrapers are planned so far, one each in Dubai and Moscow. They will be built using a truly radical technique.

Construction on the Dynamic Tower will be unlike anything that preceded it. The only part of the tower built on site will be the skinny center core. It is strong enough to hold the floors in place, and will con

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tain the building's elevators, which transport people and cars right to their door. Each floor will be made piece by piece in a factory in Italy—a throwback to Fisher's previous life in prefabricated bathroom design—and placed onto the core using a lift system. With this method, each story is completed in about six days. By comparison, traditional ground-up methods can take six weeks per floor.

Groundbreaking for Dynamic Towers in Dubai and Moscow is expected to happen in the fall, with construction reaching completion by the end of 2010. If you're game—and very, very loaded—you can sign up now for a villa or office space. The going rate is $3000/sq foot.

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Do we really realize on this?

huh..really tiring. Thinking of the current scenario in my beloved country, Malaysia.It is kindda tsunami which is trying to hit not only to the ground, but also to the top of the current elected government, Barisan Nasional. Really surprising. Everybody talk about their defense. Try to be very stronghold on the ground that they are standing right now. Well, I am not going to be biased or participate to any of side of those parties, rather just trying to give my own opinion on what happen to our beloved country, Malaysia. Just after general election anything has changed, not anly dramatically, but also drastically. On the UMNO side, they trying so hard to kill each other (between party members i meant), though they strongly deny that (huh, like you old folks try to explain to a group of syndrom-down boy).UMNO as the party leader in Barisan Nasional still cant understand the real politics. They still fighting in their dream. Well, I dont to talk so much on MCA and MIC because I can say they well manage their party though they lost majority of their support among people. Okay, come back to UMNO ( which I mean Paklah, Mahathir, Najib and Anwar Ibrahim).
Heheheh.. why I should say Anwar is part of UMNO. I believe that yall already heard the rumous about possibility fo anwar to join back his black pearl in order to lead the ship.hheheh...I dont want to drag on that issue, you can think by your self. The real fighting actually between UMNO and PKR, while others, huh waiting you both to die la....hope UMNO can think deeply why they lost in huge amount, and not only to stand on the stupid position as if you are dealing with slumpy and immatured group.Look at MCA, MIC, DAP, PPP, they dont have major conflict of interest, and even they have, they try to settle down professionally. Just put aside PAS for the moment because they are the universal not like others.
Huh.. I dont know until when this scenario will end. Maybe after september, which has been claimed by DS Anwar.maybe after Mahathir satisfied with his agenda, or maybe after malay people realize that they have shown their stupidness for the sake of power they fight for.

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