Buildings Buildings…
Question no 1: What is the tallest building in the world?
Petronas Towers! WRONG!
Yup, Petronas Towers IS no more that tallest building in the world, so stop boasting to non-Malaysians that we have the tallest building in the world. In the current year, our Petronas tower is ranked 3rd, beaten by Shanghai World Financial Centre and Taipei 101, which currently occupy the 1st slot. Add in buildings in development, the Petronas Tower will beat no 5, since two incredibly tall buildings will replace the current top three. (Note: Russia Tower is no more, since the management have scraped the project. We have to watchout for Chicago Spire, which is currently on hold)
Picture from Wikipedia
1. Burj Dubai: 818m
Russia Tower: (as of February 2009- scraped)
2. Chicago Spire (609.6m: Currently on hold due to market slowdown)
3. Taipei 101: 508m
4. Shanghai World Financial Centre: 492 m
5. Petronas Towers: 452m
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How about a building that rotates? Floor by floor? Impossible? Think again.
Dubai has plans to build the world’s first rotating building with independently moving floors. What’s more, plans call for it to be completely energy independent. Dynamic Tower will have revolving floors, with each one powered by wind turbines located in between the floor which enables it to be self powered. The view? Something like this:
“The rotation speed will be between 60 minutes and 24 hours for one revolution.Residents, if they own the entire floor, are able to control the speed and direction of the rotation by voice command. One can have breakfast watching the sunrise, lunch viewing the open sea, and dinner overlooking the lights of the city – all from the same place inside their unit.”- http://www.dynamicarchitecture.net/home.html
WOW!
Engineered to be constructed from pre-fabricated pieces, architect David Fisher envisions that it will only require 80 workers in total to erect the structure. Construction is anticipated to be finished by 2010. (another WOW)
For more details, click here, here and here
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