dubai plans moving skyscraper

jhv · 01-28-2009, 05:46 AM

not sure if this is a repost, here it is anyway

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7472722.stm

be sure to check out the video in the middle of the page

135i_TT · 01-28-2009, 06:10 AM

Wow thats verrry unique! One day ill visit this buliding.

Heinzftw · 01-28-2009, 06:39 AM

Amazing~!!

MJC///M3 · 01-28-2009, 09:30 AM

i want to go! Dubai is amazing. I believe they are also completing construction of the world's tallest building as well.

asdflkijd · 01-28-2009, 09:31 AM

This design was introduced like over a year ago, crazy stuff

asdflkijd · 01-28-2009, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by MJC///M3

i want to go! Dubai is amazing. I believe they are also completing construction of the world's tallest building as well.

yup, supposedly you can see the clouds from outside your apt window

T-MC-G · 01-28-2009, 09:36 AM

OMG they are building that whole thing for only 700million!!! talk about cheap labor...

zetaxi165 · 01-28-2009, 12:18 PM

This project has long since been canceled.

And soon many more will be..... since the bubble has burst.

Scorpion · 01-28-2009, 12:48 PM

Seeing that move in person would be awesome lol.

FStop7 · 01-28-2009, 07:11 PM

Dubai will be swallowed up by the desert in another 10 years

Year's_End · 01-28-2009, 07:17 PM

wow, that's awesome.

in5ane_3 · 01-28-2009, 09:43 PM

Dubai has the most insane ideas, structurally. Like the poster above said, it has been canceled. Which is very unfortunate, I would love to see something like this engineered and built in my lifetime.

Mk23 · 01-28-2009, 10:16 PM

I would hope that they don't actually turn that fast...

marty_mcfly · 01-28-2009, 10:31 PM

when i read the title i thought they were literally going to move a skyscraper

aut0sh0cker · 01-28-2009, 11:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Mk335i

I would hope that they don't actually turn that fast...

1 revolution about every 1-3 hours... so not too bad

The concept behind it being that every time you saw the building from the exterior (like on your morning commute) it would always be subtly different...

MCMLXXXIX · 01-29-2009, 01:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Mk335i

I would hope that they don't actually turn that fast...

seriously...

oh and how the hell would you go down an elevator in a building thats spinning???

dubai comes up with insane ideas and then cancel them...happens so much

01-28-2009, 05:46 AM	#1
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