<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>The world's first moving building, an 80-storey tower with revolving floors giving a shifting shape, will be built in Dubai, its architect says. The Dynamic Tower design is made up of 80 pre-fabricated apartments which will spin independently of one another. "It's the first building that rotates, moves, and changes shape," said architect David Fisher, who is Italian, at a news conference in New York. "This building never looks the same, not once in a lifetime," he added. The 420-metre (1,378-foot) building's apartments would spin a full 360 degrees, at voice command, around a central column by means of 79 giant power-generating wind turbines located between each floor. Computer animation of David Fisher's 'Dynamic Tower' The slender building would be energy self-sufficient as the turbines would produce enough electricity to power the entire building and even feed extra power back into the grid, said the Italian architect at the unveiling of the project in New York. The apartments, which will take between one and three hours to make a complete rotation, will cost from $3.7m to $36m. There are also plans to build a similar, 70-storey skyscraper in Moscow. "I call these buildings designed by time, shaped by life," said the Florence-based architect, who has never built a sky-scraper before. "These buildings will open our vision all around, to a new life." The skyscraper will cost an estimated $700m to build and should be up and running in Dubai in 2010.</div> [Source]
Dubai needs to build real-life transformers with all the money they have. (except obviously without the AI)
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Denny Crane @ Jun 25 2008, 04:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Sounds like the beer would slosh out of your mug in one of those apartments.</div> They're not allowed Beer in U.A.E Against their Religion. Unlucky them.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Max @ Jun 27 2008, 09:16 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Denny Crane @ Jun 25 2008, 04:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Sounds like the beer would slosh out of your mug in one of those apartments.</div> They're not allowed Beer in U.A.E Against their Religion. Unlucky them. </div> Dubai is supposed to be like their sin cities, so they probably allow beer in Dubai.
You can get beer in Dubai clubs and restaurants, if you're 21 and not a Muslim. If you're a resident, you need to get an alcohol license to be able to buy it. As far as I know, there are no alcohol sellers outside of clubs, restaurants and bars.
