(Hat-tip to Zr5.net and EcoGeek.) Ever wanted to live or work in a Jenga tower? Now you can, due to an idiotic new building design planned for Dubai.
From the article:
Each story of the tower would be shaped like a doughnut and be attached to a center core housing elevators, emergency stairs and other utilities. Wind turbines placed in gaps between the doughnuts would generate electricity.
This building can apparently power itself and ten others through the wind power generated. Yeah right, I say.
This could be the first building ever capable of inducing motion sickness. Hope there will be plenty of buckets handy.
According to the article, a full rotation will take around 90 minutes. How are they going to connect electricity and air conditioning? How are they going to provide plumbing? Noone knows.
Here’s hoping there will be buckets by the truckload.
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June 13, 2007 at 7:49 am
themolk
Dude - the first building ever to fall apart on it’s first test run.
BTW - what happened to your Kerang post? It vanished!?!
June 13, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Bob Glaza
Dubai has all the fun…
June 13, 2007 at 6:35 pm
markk
I’m just wondering if the building is going to be built on water, like in the picture.
There is a long story behind the disappearance of the Kerang post. I might tell it one day, but not now.
Dubai does have all the fun! New buildings here in Melbourne are so drab by comparison. We need to come up with something extra special to out-do them - and I have an idea that could do just that: dehydrated skyscrapers!
Just add water.
June 14, 2007 at 11:50 am
J.D.
That would be the coolest building I’ve ever seen but absolutely refused to go into.
Buildings should not move. Buildings that move are not buildings - they are fallings.
June 14, 2007 at 7:42 pm
markk
I just can’t imagine how a building could move around like that without causing some level of discomfort to those within.
If they pull this off, it will be awesome.
June 14, 2007 at 11:04 pm
lucia
I think would be perfect in a science ficiton novel! But, it’s not the first building to induce motion sickeness. The John Hancock in Chicago used to sway so badly they had to fix it!
June 15, 2007 at 4:52 pm
markk
I hadn’t heard of that one, lucia! Thanks for the comment.
June 18, 2007 at 3:34 am
Zac Johnson
Cool building post, what will they think of next. Would definitely be a landmark and attraction just to see it rotate.
June 18, 2007 at 1:05 pm
markk
It’ll certainly draw a lot of attention. Apparently they’re planning one for Chicago too.