Commissioned by the Dubai Property Ring, a firm of
UK-based developers, the 30-storey apartment block will use solar energy to power 20 electric motors that will rotate the tower through 360 degrees over the course of a week.
"This will be a fair building," says Nick Cooper, the British engineer working with MG Bennet and Associates of Rotherham, which will build the mechanism. "Everybody will
have the same views for the same amount of time."
Mr Cooper is not referring to "fair" as in "funfair" - though the building is, it has to be said, the spectacular proposed
centrepiece of the giant City of Arabia amusement park, complete with animatronic dinosaurs, which is due to open in 2009.
Time Residences will comprise 200 apartments. Its 80,000-tonne bulk will rest on a series of more or less
friction-free polymer bearings. "It moves very slowly," says
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