If your going to build, build GREEN

This especially goes for Dubai. This place is a crane-filled, sand covered, ever-expanding construction site, and it is nice to hear/see that Dubai and UAE are looking to green standards to protect and further enhance their environment.

In fact, there is even a new development in conceptual phase, surprisingly called EcoPark, the UAE's first attempt at a fully sustainable residential and mixed-use community. Sounds like a doozy!

But really, Dubai has such an ambitious attitude towards developing and creating a world-known future for itself, that it comes as little surprise that they also want to be a front runner in setting a standard of clean, healthy and eco-friendly living.

One example: a proposed tower by an experimental Italian architecture firm, Dynamic Architecture.

What they are proposing is a revolving sustainable skyscraper powered by wind turbines in between each floor. Each floor would rotate separately, so the profile of the building is different at any time. With 59 storeys and 58 turbines, they propose that the tower would generate enough surplus energy to power 5 more skyscrapers of its' size.

Pretty amazing. Read the full article here. It is quite extraordinary and seemingly possible!
Neat!

Enjoy!

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