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You Spin Me Right Round Baby Right Round

Posted May 19, 2007 7:21 PM

From electro^plankton:

I'm getting dizzy just thinking about this. The Windscraper by architect David Fisher is a tower based around a concrete center core. Each floor sits on its own ring and can independently rotate with some wind assistance. The combined turning motion of each floor is enough to power the entire building and 10 other similarly sized ones. I'm not sure how this would affect people inside but if I remember correctly, if an object is massive enough and slow enough, you can't feel it moving.

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05/21/2007 5:43 AM

It's stuff like this make me wish I had been an architect. This is what we call a windmill....

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Re: You Spin Me Right Round Baby Right Round

05/21/2007 3:08 PM

What's the payout on the project? Sadly, the accountants have taken over the world. If this building can't pay for itself in the first 90 days, it will probably never happen. How sad.

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05/23/2007 11:47 AM

So I'm guessing that your "views" are always changing (video link didn't work)....sometimes the ocean, sometimes the next building, etc.

Good luck remembering where you parked your car...

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