http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2006-11-29-skyscraper_x.htm
The 80,000-ton building with 200 apartments will sit on a giant bearing 30 yards in diameter, coated with a nearly frictionless polymer, Cooper said. Twenty small electric engines will turn the building a few degrees each hour, Cooper said.
Talk about bed spins…
I was a little dizzy after eating in a rotating resturante, in Dubai, or was it the UAE.
Dubai is badass, spent a weekend there. Real baller.
i can’t imagine you guys getting very dizzy from this…from the sounds of it, it does a full rotation after 2.5 days. If you get dizzy from that, you’re an all out pansy
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i’m more curious as to how the plumbing and electrical will work considering it only has a central axis to spin on.
abundant sunshine to power the building’s slow rotation that brings it full circle once a week
Watched a show on Dubai once.They predict they will run out of oil by 2016 so they are counting on tourism to be their main economy.A buddy of mine wanted me to buy land over there a few yrs back as I guess it is skyrocketing.No thanks
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Most ballarest shit evar son!!!
why do they need to have a building rotate?
Why do you need a 600hp Civic?
That was a good point and now the answer------- Because u can!!!
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Where’d you get 2.5 days?
The tower, announced Wednesday, will use the Persian Gulf’s abundant sunshine to power the building’s slow rotation that brings it full circle once a week, said Nick Cooper, a British engineer designing the rotation mechanism.
either way, you if you are dizzy from eating at a rotating restaurant, it’s because you are sitting in one postion for a couple hours and they rotate quite a bit faster.
That’s pretty cool, but I still think building an entire island chain community out of nothing, and shaping it like a palm tree was much cooler.
http://guide.theemiratesnetwork.com/living/dubai/the_palm_islands.php
Still, hopefully eventually Discovery will do an Extreme Engineering and show us how you make a giant building spin.
The fun stuff you can do when every time you drill a hole on your land oil comes out. 
shit, ive never managed to see the whole show about those, those look fuckin sweet
They’ve already one-up’d themselves. The new one is called “The World”. Multiple man made islands layed out as, well… The World. Schumi was already given an island by the Prince of Dubai as a retirement gift… a $7 million dollar gift :eek:
http://www.theworld.ae/
those dubai fuckers have to much money. did u see the mall they built? they had a mountain put in it, in the ski shot they had to people could try the stuff out or just mess around