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Dubai 'shape-shifting skyscraper' unveiled
- Plans for revolutionary 420-meter rotating skyscraper in Dubai unveiled
- 80-story Dynamic Tower has been designed by architect David Fisher
- Advanced plans to build second tower in Moscow
- Tower will be built from prefabricated units; due to be completed by 2010
(CNN) -- Ambitious plans to build a revolutionary 420-meter shape-shifting skyscraper in Dubai have been unveiled by architects.
Each floor of the tower would rotate independently, architects claim, creating an ever-shifting shape.
The 80-story Dynamic Tower, described as the "world's first building in
motion," will also be the first skyscraper constructed from
prefabricated units, according to a press statement released by New
York-based architect David Fisher's Dynamic Group.
Each floor would be capable of rotating independently, powered by wind turbines fitted between each floor.
"You can adjust the shape the way you like every given moment," Fisher
said. "It's not a piece of architecture somebody designed today and
that's it. It remains forever. It's designed by life, shaped by time." 
Watch how the tower would spin and twist »
Apartments will sell for around $3,000 per square foot, making each
unit range in price from about $4 million to $40 million. Work on the
tower is due to be completed by 2010, according to Dynamic's Web site.
Fisher said plans to build a second rotating skyscraper in Moscow were
at an advanced stage and that the group intended to build a third tower
in New York. He said developers and public officials in Canada, Europe
and South Korea had also expressed interest in the project.
But some have expressed skepticism. Fisher has never built a skyscraper
before. He says he has teamed up with reputed architects and engineers
in the United Kingdom and India.
Although he has received a development license for construction in Dubai,
in the United Arab Emirates, he has not disclosed the site of the
building. The Moscow mayor's office said it was looking into the
project and a decision had not been made.
Fisher has called prefabricated construction techniques the "future of architecture" and says they will radically transform 4,000-year-old "brick-on-brick" building methods.
By using preconstructed parts, Fisher said each story could be built in
just seven days, resulting in environmentally cleaner building methods.
He said just 600 people on an assembly site and 80 technicians on the
construction site would be needed to build the tower -- compared with
around 2,000 workers for a traditional project of a comparable scale.
"It is unbelievable that real estate and construction which is the
leading sector of the world economy, is also the most primitive, Fisher
is quoted as saying on Dynamic's Web site.
"Most workers throughout the world still regularly use trowels that
was first used by the Egyptians and then by the Romans. Buildings
should not be different than any other product, and from now on they
will be manufactured in a production facility."
Dubai is currently experiencing a construction boom with the Burj tower
set to claim the title of the world's tallest building when it is
completed in 2009. It is already home to the world's largest mall and
-- despite being in the Middle East -- it boasts the largest indoor snow park in the world.