Please forward my mail to the penthouse of the rotating skyscraper

Totally wiiild Italian architect Dr. David Fisher announced plans this week for rotating skyscrapers in Dubai and Moscow, according to the NY Daily News. Fisher says the idea came to him while he was enjoying the view from a friend’s Manhattan apartment (probably nuts on hallucinogens) and imagined a building “where everybody can see the East River and the Hudson River.”

From the article:

The Dubai tower, set to be completed in 2010, will be 80 stories tall, housing office space, a hotel, and apartments. Each floor will rotate independently at a different speed, giving the building a constantly changing shape.

In the apartments on the highest floors, owners will set the direction of rotation through a system that responds to voice commands in three languages.

The perk doesn’t come cheap - apartments will sell at $3,000 per square foot - with the largest ones going for a whopping $38 million.

The tower will also make all its own energy and electricity for neighboring buildings with wind turbines placed between floors.

Fisher has suggested that the building — called the Dynamic Tower — would be a beautiful addition to the Manhattan skyline, and hopes to build a third incarnation of the project here. Full article (with video) here. And another article at The Globe Investor.