According to The Wall Street Journal, plans are underway for a 68-Story Rotating Tower in Dubai.

“David Fisher, an Italian-Israeli architect, has dreamed up a 68-story combination hotel, apartment and office tower where the floors would rotate 360 degrees. Each floor would rotate independently, creating a constantly changing architectural form.”

And it’s green too - Wind turbines placed in gaps between the doughnuts would generate electricity.

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Only an architectural enthusiast would endeavor to build a home on this extremely steep site at Separation Creek, above Victoria’s Great Ocean Road. With a forty-five degree incline, the property challenged both the owners and architects, Jackson Clements Burrows (JCB) Architects. ‘Most of the one hectare site was too steep to build on. Only a few hundred square metres offered space for a building,’ says architect Graham Burrows, one of three directors of the practice.

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Architecture firms Julien de Smedt and CEBRA in collaboration with Louis Paillard and SeArch have dreamed up this future community due for completion in 2010. The “Iceberg” design has just won a competition for a housing complex at the Aarhus docklands development in Denmark. 

From YankoDesign:

“Comprising over 200 apartments and a variety of shops, cultural and social activities and ample workplaces. Remaining below the maximum heights at points and emerging above the dotted line at other moments. “Peaks” and “canyons” form; eliciting the project’s strength while ensuring that all apartment will be supplied with a generous amount of natural lighting and waterfront views. With the global change growing exponentially, waterfront views may be in all our futures.”

Straight from New York… Construction has begun in Tribeca on Five Franklin Place by Dutch architect Ben van Berkel of UNStudio.

Van Berkel says, “The apartments at Five Franklin Place do not follow a strong grid. They are organically designed in how the stairs swoop upward, how the balcony loops you back indoors. There’s an idea of looping around the apartments, without many dead ends, so that all of the space really accommodates life and the flow of life.”

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The Waldspirale is the name of a residential building complex in Darmstadt, Germany built in the 1990s. The name translates into English as spiral forest, reflecting both the general plan of the building and the fact that it has a green roof.

Kunsthaus - Graz (Graz Art Museum) was built as part of the European Capital of Culture celebrations in 2003 and has since become an architectural landmark in Graz, Austria.

…same building at dusk.

Habitat 67 is a housing complex and familiar landmark located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on the Marc-Drouin Quay on the Saint Lawrence River. Its striking design was created by architect Moshe Safdie based on his master’s thesis at McGill University and built as part of Expo 67.

This building located in Newark, Ohio, USA - owned by Longaberger Company, they specialized on baskets, has a shape of… exactly a basket. Thanks to JoeK for submitting this photo.

The Dancing House (Czech: Tančící dům) is the nickname (another nickname is “Drunk House”) given to an office building in downtown Prague, Czech Republic.