In Dubai, they say they will build the world's first rotating skyscraper

Dubai - Among Dubai's architectural rarities are the island shaped like a palm tree and a hotel shaped like a sailboat, and in the future, the first rotating skyscraper in the world will be added to them. It will be a thirty-story residential tower that will rotate around its axis once a week. Therefore, none of its residents will have a worse view than their neighbor. The movement of the building will be ensured by a mechanism that will utilize solar energy. This was reported today by the AP agency.
    The author of this technical marvel is British engineer Nick Cooper. "It will be a nice building. Everyone there will have the same view for the same amount of time, so there won't be any rooms with the best view," he said.
    The tower, with 200 apartments and weighing 80,000 tons, will rest on a massive smooth pedestal with a diameter of 30 meters. Twenty small electric motors will rotate the building a few degrees every hour.
    The skyscraper is set to be completed by 2009 as the central structure of Dubai's theme park. It will feature artificial lakes, shopping centers, and a park with dinosaurs.