Dubai plans 'moving' skyscraper

The Dubai skyline will be constantly changing after plans for the world's first rotating tower were unveiled.

The 80-storey "Dynamic Tower", will be a shifting skyscraper of luxury apartments on spinning floors, which will be attached to a central column.



Plans for the project were unveiled in New York by Italian architect David Fisher, who said: "This building will have endless different shapes".

The 420-metre (1,378-foot) building features 80 apartments that spin a full 360 degrees around a central column by means of 79 power-generating wind turbines located between each floor.



The apartments will take between one and three hours to make a complete rotation, and at 30,000 dollars (£15,254) per square meters, will cost between 3.7 million (£1.8 million) to 36 million dollars (£18 million).

Mr Fisher said the skyscraper, which would be energy self sufficient and cost about 700 million dollars (£355 million) to build, was due to be completed in Dubai by 2010.