How would you like to stay in an apartment where you can park your exotic supercar in the same floor as where you are staying? But that’s not the coolest idea of all. How about having breakfast while facing the sunrise, over the horizon across the beach and then having dinner later in the day facing the sunset, all at the same place? This is what the building below promises; called the Rotating Tower of Dubai, scheduled for completion by 2010.
The best is yet to come. Get this – the building actually changes its shape! I am not kidding you, watch the video below. Each and every single one of the apartment actually rotates around an axis individually, not only that they can even extend outwards! I shall let the video below do the talking.
A longer more detailed version.
Images from David Fisher's Dynamic Architecture.
For more images, download the brochure here.
Just like everywhere else, exotics cars with equally exclusive number plates are highly prized bragging rights for the rich in Dubai. A garage tour is an almost mandatory agenda while hosting a guest. So why should the rich want to be separated from their exotics just so they can have an apartment with a view overlooking the sea, when supercars are very much part of the landscape or decoration of their fancy mansions.
Floor plan
As shown below, the cars are transported on a specialized elevator.
The automatic car park tower should be very much like the one used in Volkswagen’s AutoStadt’s customer vehicle collection center facility in VW AG’s headquarters in Wolfsburg Germany.
By the way, if all these extravagent living doesn't make you heady, there is this Toyota Camry in Dubai, plated with 24K Gold currently on auction here. Like I said before, wealth and taste do not necessarily come together.
Those are REAL gold. The only other car which I can remember having gold plating (I am refering to real gold, not some tacky ad-ons on a Hyundai Sonata) is the Gordon Murray's McLaren F1 with its gold plated engine bay for heat dissipation.
2 comments:
If im not mistaken, Pengiran Jefri of Brunei had built an elevator at the MOF's building so he could park his supercar right at his his office when he was the Brunei's Finance Minister in the early 90's.
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