Moving skyscraper
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Moving skyscrapers are tall buildings in which individual floors can rotate on its axis. The world's first such building, the Dynamic Tower
Dynamic Tower
The Dynamic Tower is a planned , 80-floor moving skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, designed by architect David Fisher....

, will be built in Dubai
Dubai
Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates . The emirate is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi...

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The Dynamic Tower

The tower which will be built in Dubai is designed by an Italian architect, David Fisher
David Fisher (architect)
David Fisher is an Israeli-born Italian architect in Florence. He graduated from the University of Florence and also was a lecturer of architecture and structural engineering at the same university. He has designed buildings and proposed schemes for the restoration of ancient monuments. He has...

. It will have a total number of 80 floors. All the floors are prefabricated and can spin 360 degrees around a central column by means of power generated by the wind turbine located between each floor. The apartment
Apartment
An apartment or flat is a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building...

s are expected to cost about $3.7 million to $36 million. The construction was expected to be completed by 2010. But it wasn't considering it is a silly idea and it also the year 2011. The projected cost of the project was 700 million dollars.
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