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Rainbow Room, Dubai
From the finest student paper in the city, we learn that
An Italian architect said he is poised to start construction on a new skyscraper in Dubai that will be “the world’s first building in motion,” an 80-story tower with revolving floors.
The idea is to give luxury dwellers a skyline that’s constantly in flux. Like a bunch of stacked Rainbow Rooms.
The project combines just about every construction buzzword. It’s a modular design, built in Italy and assembled in Dubai. There will be fans between each floor to power the entire building, and elevators will transport penthousers directly from their cars to their doors, which actually sounds like a fantastic Dubai safety feature. But one that probably doesn’t matter; if you’re buying here, you’re also toting a security guard.
The scary thing about this place is that
the spinning floors [will be] hung like rings around an immobile cement core.
And I just ate this delicious cookie this morning, kind of messy, though, what with the flour, eggs, and chocolate chips all over the place. Similarly, I don’t think cement is all that immobile.
But this explains everything. The Italian architect spearheading the project has a phony degree.
The biography also said he received an honorary doctorate from “The Prodeo Institute at Columbia University in New York.” No such institution exists, however, and Columbia said it had never awarded Fisher an honorary degree.