Dubai's first rotating tower project

No-one knows if it will ever be built, but architect David Fisher's rotating tower project - planned for Dubai and Moscow - is certainly a one of a kind.

Billed as the first ‘building in motion’, the $700 million Dynamic Tower will feature floors that can rotate independently of the rest of the building.

The 420m high tower is the first building in the world that can change its shape constantly, Fisher said as he launched the project back in June.

Here we give you a video guide to the project including an interview with Fisher at a press conference in New York.

At the time, Fisher said that reservations were now being taken for the Dubai tower, while the Moscow tower was now in the advanced design phase.

He also expressed an intention to build a third in New York and that he had received interest from developers in Canada, Switzerland, Germany, Italy and South Korea.

Fisher also declared to the tower to be a sustainable development.

“The Dynamic Tower is environmentally friendly and the first building designed to be self-powered, with the ability to generate its own electricity, as well as for other nearby buildings, it achieves this feat with wind turbines fitted between each rotating floor, An 80-storey building will have up to 79 wind turbines, making it a true green power plant,” he said.

While offering up impressive concept designs, Fisher received a good deal of criticism after refusing to discuss details about how the tower would actually function and how rotating apartments would be serviced with electricity and plumbing.

Little has been heard from Fisher in the press since, leaving many to label the project a fantasy tower - an architect's dream and an engineer's nightmare.