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Where in the world will you find the only revolving apartment building?

sao paulo is it?

its really cool though cause there's 15 condos, each one spins independant of the other and you can control rotation speed & direction. I think the cost was 300k or something like that.
 
It's one way to turn your life around. Move into the world's first revolving apartment building. Located in Curitiba, Brazil, the Suite Vollard has eleven 3,000-square-foot units, each of which occupies a whole floor. The apartments, designed by architect Bruno de Franco of Moro Construction, are bring offered for $3000K apiece (quite pricy by local standards). Owners control the speed and direction of the rotation; a full 360 takes anywhere from 25 minutes to an hour. The bathrooms and kitchens are at the building's stationary core, so their wires and pipes don't get twisted. Need Dramamine? Call the doorman. --Wired Magazine, July 2005
 
Can you imagine, waking up in the middle of the night having a need to go to the toilet and

1) not knowing where the toilet door is relation to your bed. You would have to stagger around the centre to find the thing.

2) Be disorientated as your sense of direction would be all skew whif from the bed not being pointing in the same direction each night.

3) Returning form you midnight escapade to find your bed in a different spot from where it was when you entered.

Could be fun!
 
Originally posted by: dartworth
It's one way to turn your life around. Move into the world's first revolving apartment building. Located in Curitiba, Brazil, the Suite Vollard has eleven 3,000-square-foot units, each of which occupies a whole floor. The apartments, designed by architect Bruno de Franco of Moro Construction, are bring offered for $3000K apiece (quite pricy by local standards). Owners control the speed and direction of the rotation; a full 360 takes anywhere from 25 minutes to an hour. The bathrooms and kitchens are at the building's stationary core, so their wires and pipes don't get twisted. Need Dramamine? Call the doorman. --Wired Magazine, July 2005
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$3000K :shocked:
 
Originally posted by: zugzoog
Can you imagine, waking up in the middle of the night having a need to go to the toilet and

1) not knowing where the toilet door is relation to your bed. You would have to stagger around the centre to find the thing.

2) Be disorientated as your sense of direction would be all skew whif from the bed not being pointing in the same direction each night.

3) Returning form you midnight escapade to find your bed in a different spot from where it was when you entered.

Could be fun!
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I don't think you quite understand how it works.
 
Originally posted by: simms
Originally posted by: tami
there's a revolving restaurant in new york here. it's very slow -- you can barely tell that it's moving.
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No big - Toronto has the world's highest revolving resaurant.

http://www.cntower.ca
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wow, there are others. 😀 pretty cool. thanks for the link!

edit: i only knew of the times square one as i live here. i read about the brazil apartments when that article was published but never realized that there were so many restaurants. i might have to make myself visit every single one -- one of these days 🙂
 
Originally posted by: stan394
Originally posted by: tami
Originally posted by: simms
Originally posted by: tami
there's a revolving restaurant in new york here. it's very slow -- you can barely tell that it's moving.
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No big - Toronto has the world's highest revolving resaurant.

http://www.cntower.ca
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wow, there are others. 😀 pretty cool. thanks for the link!
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the one in HK was built like 30 years ago
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There are two here in MN. One in Duluth and one in Minneapolis.
 
Originally posted by: rmrf
Originally posted by: stan394
Originally posted by: tami
Originally posted by: simms
Originally posted by: tami
there's a revolving restaurant in new york here. it's very slow -- you can barely tell that it's moving.
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No big - Toronto has the world's highest revolving resaurant.

http://www.cntower.ca
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wow, there are others. 😀 pretty cool. thanks for the link!
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the one in HK was built like 30 years ago
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There are two here in MN. One in Duluth and one in Minneapolis.
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Duluth, eh? Might have to visit that one next time I head up there to see my mom.
 
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: rmrf


There are two here in MN. One in Duluth and one in Minneapolis.
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Duluth, eh? Might have to visit that one next time I head up there to see my mom.
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There's no website for it, but here's the info:

Top of the Harbor and Skyview Lounge
505 Superior Street
Duluth, MN 55802
218-727-8981
 
Originally posted by: rmrf
Originally posted by: zugzoog
Can you imagine, waking up in the middle of the night having a need to go to the toilet and

1) not knowing where the toilet door is relation to your bed. You would have to stagger around the centre to find the thing.

2) Be disorientated as your sense of direction would be all skew whif from the bed not being pointing in the same direction each night.

3) Returning form you midnight escapade to find your bed in a different spot from where it was when you entered.

Could be fun!
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I don't think you quite understand how it works.
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Actually I do.

Check out the building's website Suite Vollard

Note the Floor plan

and the following
The apartment rings rotate around a static core used for building services, utilities, and all areas which require plumbing.
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So the Apartment ring rotates around the static central core which contains the essential services. Your bed will rotate relative to the toilet entrance.
 
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