Hi Dr.David,
I'm a future Civil Engineer,I'm a student in Kuwait University 4th year and next semester i have my senior project,,Really, I Love your amazing work and i hope to be one of your student to get benefit.
I need to have information from you about the Dynamics Architecture .

Dalal Shammoh, Kuwait, Kuwait

hay dr david i am a future architect so i want be lake you i need your advises !!

bilel, guelma, algeria

No structural engineer will want to tackle this project. This architect is daydreaming.
Aside from the questionable taste, this building would be a nightmare of complications and hazards. Think of the consequesces of any serious sandstorm, of a fire, or a glitch in the waste valves.
Won't be built.

Maurizio, Brescia, Italy

Phase 1) Design a fancy rotating tower claiming something unheard like that it will be self powered even if it is physically impossible.
2) Hire a press agent and go around the world trying to find financiers for your project.
3) If you find the money (IF) send the fancy project to a bold engineer.

tanocci, padova, italy

It's too expensive and I don't think and those challenges mentioned will be imho a real disaster!!! Anyway, all those swirling parts will bring a real instability to the whole building. I wouldn't live there! Sorry for my conservatism )))

Vadim, Moscow, Russia

Only in Dubai hehe... tho I would not be impressed in paying for a certain view, to be at the architect's mercy at which direction he makes me face. How often will he more the rotation of the floors? xx

Yasmin, Dubai / Nottingham, United Arab Emirates

Totally agree with Doran, Shanghai, China! Everytime I watch Extreme Engineering or similar programmes on TV I take my hat off to the engineers and builders who are the real heroes! Have you seen the problems they are trying to overcome in Northern Spain!

Denise, Johannesburg, SA

i love it i think it is absolute genius, it would really freshen up the skyline and give tourists something else to look at

hamish stone, wells,

Well, I'm no architect.... But I am a structural engineer. I love how these articles always give credit to the man who draws some pretty pictures, whereas we never hear the name of the far more creative engineers solving the thousands of problems a project like this would create

Doran, Shanghai, China

Well I'm hoping hackers get into that architect's laptop and set the thing to washing machine spin cycle.

Hortensia, SF, USA

Maintaing physical connections presents interesting challenges but is not impossible. (BTW Steve from Cambridge, have you never heard the term 'wireless'?)

I don't consider it an especially 'elegant' idea but it'd be pretty impressive. Which one presumes is the whole point.

Ed, Melbourne, Australia

Why is it that whenever an expert expresses an idea or comment that is reported in The Times, crowds of laymen who know nothing about it immediately jump on the comments section to disagree? this guy is an architect apparently - unless you are too, what do you know?

Ed, Melbourne, Australia

That news is not very new... : D Science Magazine in Scandinavia made artcile about that allmost half year ago :D

Iku Merikalla, Raahe, Finland

Delightully droll! But why was this announced on June 24? Shouldn't it have been April 1st?

f.do, Joao Pessoa - PB, Brazil

i think it's a brilliant and elegant idea for a building. too many buildings are carbon copies of things that have already been done. i bet there will be a complex system for floor movement. like if no voice command is heard for a period of six hours, it defaults to the architect's plan. bravo!

dan, Cleveland, USA

We have to try new ideas - if they don't work, they will die out.

Xiaohong Yun, Beijing, China

Nice for an sculpture... stupid for a building... who wants to live moving around at the will of someone u don't know... the building might look good but i believe living in it its not going to be fun.

gerardo, caguas, puerto rico

This should make an excellent "anchor" attraction for six flags over Dubai! Could be one of those "earthquake disaster" rides. Can they put a roller coaster on the highest roof? I will buy a season pass!

carson, lac du flambeau, USA

It seems that, more and more, the world is populated by people with too much time on their hands. How about designing a hospital that is easy to clean - no kudos?

Peter, Sittingbourne,

What if someone buys an entire floor and rotates it in the opposite direction to the nice swirly design the architect makes from all the other floors ? It would look like one of the floors had broken down. Plus, if you don't buy an entire floor, you're going to feel sea-sick. Lovely idea though.

T Coates, Ambleside, England

Another "great" moment in western decadence going east. Dubai is a vast hollow wasteland devoid of culture but plenty of money. The Las Vegas of the middle east, their incredible wealth "could" be used for greater humanitarian things to make a better world, but that's only wishful thinking.

jean jaures, paris, france

wow a gust of wind, bet the ARCHITECT never thought of that, you should get on the phone, or should that be blower.

norm, London, England

In the evnt of fire in the building and laptop rotation malfunction how will any firefighters be able to move freely between the rotating floors to do their jobs and how will the workers escape easily. Sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.

chris, brighton,

I'm all in favour of this design. Its about time archetects moved in a way which wasn't so different as to be appaling visually. At least here there will be a thing of beauty, powerering itself and craeting, probably, the most expensive carousel ride in history...

NM, London,

Evetually, they will have to stop most of the floors because:
a) some people will get sick due to the rotation
b) others will be annoyed of the constant change of the view
c) the rest will not care
So this whole idea is totally nuts!

Andreas Timmann, Hamburg, Germany

I think these buildings will start the whole futuristic feeling. Ya know, like on TV shows, where there are all these floating, spinning, crazy things everywhere. I think that these buildings are going to start that whole new futuristic era!

Mariah, Birmingham, USA

No mention of who the developers are for all these groundbreaking projects.... hmmm... I suspect these buildings ane nothing more than this architect's fight of fancy.

Vantage, Lincoln, UK

NAthan, Ashley and Giorgio if everyone thought like you then we would be living in huts made of thatch! Civilisation wasn't achieved by rejecting new ideas, the impossible has to be considered and then considered. Only then progress is achieved.
Dunno about the costs though!

Alex K, Manchester, UK

There is no credibility to this, it's just a guy in his bedroom with some 3D modelling software. Total non-story.

John, London, UK

Is there a view from a reputable structural engineer please? All these tawdry comments when non have seen the construction drawings. I doubt any client is going to sanction such a building for it NOT to work and so make themselves look incredibly stupid. Do you?

CA, Petworth , UK

It is a real wonderful that switch from static architecture to dynamic architecture. Simply wonderful, proud of it!
And was thinked from Italy of course, another great idea that comes from us!

Cheers

Stefano, Brindisi, Italy

Looks great, will be fun if the Gremlins get involved.

Ben Ashworth, London, uk

I like the idea of this concept being trialled in a country that has enough money to actually get it off the ground (sorry) and make it work.

Good luck.

Angela, Epping, Australia

Surely a better way to be kind to the environment would be to not build this at all! The energy put back into the grid will not exactly be outweighed by the energy used to build it....

Cate, manchester, uk

Though all for invention, this seems monstrous. As our planet continues to become energy starved to move a building just to get a better view is a sick idea. Wse the turbines on the building to make it and others energy self sufficient.

Marc Hawker, london, uk

Genius, all he needs to do now is invent elastic computer cables and he'll have a building people can actually work in.
How on earth would you link a desk on floor 10 with a desk on floor 11? the lifts and stairs could be in the central core, but nothing outside that core could have a physical link

Steve, Cambridge, UK

Sounds like the next great movement (pardon the pun) in architecture to me.

G Davidson, Kashiwa, Japan

If the floors are perfectly circular it won't be a problem. But from the concept diagrams, I wonder what the air turbulence is going to be like. Would a particular arrangement of floors be enough to channel the air flow so that the building oscillates or even is blown over?

Michael, Edinburgh,

How novel. Being airsick and seasick at the same time.

Henry, Glasgow, Scotland

Ignore the negatives, just do it, problems and all.

Peter, Sydney, Australia

Moronic and naieve.

Might look good on his Mac but this guy doesn't understand the nature of tall buildings.

RD, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

Wow!! Will it also have Harry Potter style moving staircase.

Mary Pavey, Gosport, UK

I wouldnt want to live in that !
We use the position of the sun etc and the differences in light as reference points to gauge the time of day etc. This would be very nauseating

Giles, Wandsworth, UK

What an EGO!
This is what happens when Computer Cad takes over from Pencils, slide rules and double elephant drawing boards.
This is NOT architecture but virtual graphics.
Get real sir , you have a professional responsibility to humanity.

Noel DAIN
Architect Paris.

Noel DAIN, Paris, FRANCE

architects; let say, archidiots.

giorgio, monza, italy

Great Idea's, Genius to the next generation !!!!

meganathan, bangalore, India

Being different is endemic to human creativity. Doing it for the sake of it often produces follies. If people live in a space which architects fill up with their personal concepts, then people should be given a chance to vote. I suspect Dubaians and Muscovites would be happy to vote no to the above.

Ashley Saunders, Hong Kong,

What is going to stop a gust of wind grabbing hold of a level and spinning it at a higher than normal speed? No way this could work. The structural engineer will take one look at it and put it in the too-hard basket.

Nathan, Sydney, Australia

Bravo; except the real challenge with tall buildings is not structural, it's keeping the weather out.

Dave Mzr, St. Louis,