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Majeski, John. "It's alive! Euro architect unveils rotating building." Real Estate Weekly. Hagedorn Communications. 2008. HighBeam Research. 7 Mar. 2016 <https://www.highbeam.com>.
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Otherworldly.
Perhaps the word best describes Italian architect David Fisher's design for an 80-story skyscraper in Dubai that would become the planet's first tower with the ability to move. The so-called "shape-shifting" Dynamic Tower would allow each floor to rotate independently around a central and static core.
Work on the $700 million project will begin in the next few weeks while a second and smaller tower of 70 stories--Moscow's Rotating Tower--has entered the "advanced design stage." Eventually, Fisher plans on expanding to New York City and elsewhere in the world.
The Dubai and Moscow projects will be completed in 2010 and will move thanks to wind turbines located between each of the floors. …
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