Dubai Skyscraper - the Dynamic Tower: Floors Rotate, Recall Space City from Fireball XL5
Every Saturday morning when I was of a certain age, I was glued to the television as the black-and-white science-fiction TV show Fireball XL5 appeared. The opening credits involved launching the rocket Fireball XL5 on a horizontal set of Lionel electric train tracks that curved upwards and pointed the way into space at the last moment. How cool was that? As it gathered speed with some throbbing music in the background, Fireball XL5 raced past a rotating skyscraper called “Space City” that controlled the whole operation. How cool was that? Now the country of Dubai has decided to re-envision the Space City rotating skyscraper for the 21st century with an 80-story, shape-shifting skyscraper called the Dynamic Tower that has independently rotating floors. Now how…cool…is…that?
Fireball XL5’s Space City, a rotating skyscraper from the 1960s
Dubai’s Dynamic Tower, a rotating skyscraper for the 21st century
Dubai’s Dynamic Tower will be constructed from prefabricated parts. Each floor will be completed in a week. The building is being designed by New York-based architect David Fisher’s Dynamic Group. I hope they start laying some train track along side of it.
