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Well how about living in a flat like that?

Malc

I pity the window cleaner.

Self cleaning glass, I'd expect.

Personally, I'd love to live in that. I may have to do something similar to my house, but raise it up on stilts instead.

from only $3,000,000

Malc

that ones probably the first floor where you get a 360 degree view of the car park.

The first rotating building in the world!

...except for this one.

Also, why would you want to live in Dubai? Because it's run by sand monkeys, all the fun stuff is banned.

That's a bit strong isn't it, MA?

Tell that to the people who got thrown in prison for eating a poppy seed bagel at Heathrow.

They all rotate at the same speed tho.

Plus they are building one in Moscow too.

Malc

Whilst your right about their ridiculous laws calling them 'sand monkeys' destroys your argument by making you sound massively racist.

Eeeesh.

It's not like we through around the N bomb because Mugabe's a cunt.

Though I did have a massive argument with a friend who went to dubai on holiday about how safe it was. That poppy seed stuff scared the crap out of her when she got back.

They all rotate at the same speed tho./quote]

I didn't realize they had to rotate at different speeds for it to count as a rotating building.

The 'sand monkeys' thing was a joke (haven't you seen the South Park where they go to Afghanistan) but I was trying to make a point (which you've gotten, at least).

Also, I'd sooner live in Moscow than in Dubai. Have you SEEN chicks from Soviet Russia?



ROWR!

Malc

I hope there's a good list of voice commands like 'FASTER! SPIN FASTER!' and 'TRANSFORM!'

How the fuck do you fit a lift to that thing then? Or stairs?

They'll be rotating around a static core, which will have lift and stairs in.

The lift runs up the outside, and can only move to the next floor when the tracks it runs on are precisely aligned. As a result, some people living on the 15th floor have been trying to get down to the laundry room for the last week.

Righty.

After all the excitement has died down I suspect the millionaires who live there will mainly use this to deal with the problem of the sun shining on your TV.

"Get up and move the TV a few inches? Fuck you! I'm rich! I'll move the building!"

Yep, and the lift exits straight into the apartments. It's like Russian roulette.

I went to the rotating restaurant in Switzerland from that James Bond film when I was very young. There was a clip show of parts of the movie there which featured the restaurant I was in exploding, which confused the hell out of me because I didn't understand the concept of "models".

I seriously wouldn't want to wake up with a hangover in one of those apartments though.

It's actually a complex array of moving cubes, based on a prime number system with some rooms containing lots of death.

Alan Sugar's property division is launching the same thing in the UK. Except his rotating flat is in fact a standard flat with a swivel chair glued to the floor and a built in 3 inch drive.

Should you want the walls painted in anything other than green, there is a £100 surcharge.

I went to the one in Dortmund a few years ago, it was beautiful, but go very sunburnt sat watching, I didn't want to get off and anyone who knows me knows I hate heights!

The only English link I can find is here. Just scroll down a little.