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06-29-2008, 12:49 AM
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06-29-2008, 12:51 AM
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06-29-2008, 12:58 AM
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06-29-2008, 01:00 AM
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The building must have a static core which all the floors would rotate around. |
06-29-2008, 01:03 AM
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Originally Posted by moomoocajoo That was my first thought Atoz lol.
The building must have a static core which all the floors would rotate around. | Great minds think alike... or at least our minds do, anyway. 
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06-29-2008, 01:08 AM
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What drugs are the engineers in Dubai taking and where can I get some?! |
06-29-2008, 01:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Mark Wilson What drugs are the engineers in Dubai taking and where can I get some?! | Oil. 
Dubai is a nice city, but the "real" parts are far more interesting and nicer than the commercial Western type parts.
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06-29-2008, 09:15 AM
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06-29-2008, 09:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Sonic_Death How do you exit the building if it is constantly moving... | You can't- it's like talkbass.
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06-29-2008, 09:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Sonic_Death How do you exit the building if it is constantly moving... | Why would you want to? Knowing Dubai, it's probably going to have a supermarket, cinema, swimming pool, stadium and a gym all built in. 
They should put a BASS ONLY store on one whole level.
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06-29-2008, 09:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Atoz Great minds think alike... or at least our minds do, anyway. | no. Great minds make their own ideas :P
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06-29-2008, 09:57 AM
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"I call these buildings designed by time, shaped by life," said the Florence-based architect, who has never built a sky-scraper before | That doesn't worry anyone?
Seriously, I'm waiting for someone to come out and say "Haha, we tricked you guys!"
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06-29-2008, 10:04 AM
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Originally Posted by wdinc01 That doesn't worry anyone?
Seriously, I'm waiting for someone to come out and say "Haha, we tricked you guys!" | that is a bit scary...
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06-29-2008, 10:10 AM
| | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | Oh, lighten up. It's just like building a bass, except for the plumbing, wiring, hundreds of human lives at stake & probably a couple other things(I'm no expert here)but what's the big deal?
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06-29-2008, 11:14 AM
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Originally Posted by wdinc01 That doesn't worry anyone?
Seriously, I'm waiting for someone to come out and say "Haha, we tricked you guys!" |
That was my first thought.
Then I thought maybe he learned how to do it at www.TalkArchitecture.com
In that case, he'd be ok.
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06-29-2008, 11:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Listowel/KW Ontario | | | Actually it is quite feasible. Put everything around a static core and the bottom level doesn't rotate and you have eliminated most of the problems. For the building to stay together it would have to have a static core. Plus the wind turbines running the thing could be fed either into the floor above or the floor below, eliminating the massive wiring problem. I think that it is a great idea, just the wind turbine part alone is so simple everyone should be kicking themselves for not thinking of it before. With modern building techniques this wont be hard to make. Skyscraper engeneering has stayed basically the same since the 1920s or 1930s when the Sears Tower went up.
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06-29-2008, 11:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Glasgow, Scotland | | Sears tower was 70s wasnt it?
That was pretty much the last big step forward in skyscrapers afaik, with the twin towers going up too. Very clever pieces of engineering and, had they specified something other than fire retardant plaster board then they may still be standing today...amazing how such a seemingly small thing can make such a difference. |
06-29-2008, 12:01 PM
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Originally Posted by moomoocajoo Sears tower was 70s wasnt it?
That was pretty much the last big step forward in skyscrapers afaik, with the twin towers going up too. Very clever pieces of engineering and, had they specified something other than fire retardant plaster board then they may still be standing today...amazing how such a seemingly small thing can make such a difference. | You are right, I have no idea why I was thinking 50 years earlier. That being said, skyscrapers haven't advanced much since then. This is the next logical step, something that will provide its own energy. The moving part is cool, but not all that practical.
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06-29-2008, 12:04 PM
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The 420-metre (1,378-foot) building's apartments would spin a full 360 degrees, at voice command...
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06-29-2008, 12:13 PM
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