{"id":35300,"date":"2017-03-13T13:08:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T20:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/worlds-first-rotating-shape-shifting-tower-planned-for-dubai"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:09:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:09:26","slug":"worlds-first-rotating-shape-shifting-tower-planned-for-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/worlds-first-rotating-shape-shifting-tower-planned-for-dubai","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first rotating, shape-shifting tower planned for Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jEYZ-ylelbg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fisher envisions an <a href=\"https:\/\/skyscrapercenter.com\/building\/dynamic-tower\/251\" target=\"_blank\">80-story, 1,273-foot tower<\/a> in Dubai with floors that can rotate 360 degrees in both directions. He said he got the idea for a rotating tower that continuously changes shape more than a decade ago while staring out of the Olympic Tower in New York.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI noticed that from a certain spot you could see the East River and the Hudson River, both sides of Manhattan,\u201d he said on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dynamicarchitecture.net\/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=36&Itemid=35&lang=eng\" target=\"_blank\">Dynamic Architecture\u2019s website<\/a>. \u201cThat is when I thought to myself: \u2018Why don\u2019t we rotate the entire floor? That way, everybody can see both the East River and the Hudson River, as well as Saint Patrick\u2019s Cathedral!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/02\/20\/world\/rotating-dubai-tower-trnd\/index.html?sr=fbCNN022017rotating-dubai-tower-trnd0630PMStoryLink&linkId=34692552\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/02\/20\/world\/rotating-dubai-tower-trn...d=34692552<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fisher envisions an 80-story, 1,273-foot tower in Dubai with floors that can rotate 360 degrees in both directions. He said he got the idea for a rotating tower that continuously changes shape more than a decade ago while staring out of the Olympic Tower in New York. \u201cI noticed that from a certain spot you [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58427,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35300\/revisions\/58427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}