The Tallest Buildings in the World

Dubai Tower to be Solar-PoweredTopic: Innovations Forget the
kilometer-high Burj Dubai under construction in the Persian Gulf’s fast-
growing city-state. A British consortium is building something even wilder,
which surely qualifies as the world’s largest bona-fide gadget: The Time
Residences tower, a solar powered skyscraper that will use the electricity
thus generated to rotate through 360 degrees. “We didn’t want to build
just another building or tower, we wanted to create something unique – a
precious place to live – a genuine contender to be one of the great
buildings in the world,” said Tav Singh, director of Dubai Property Ring,
the Dubai arm of UK-based property investors UK Property Group. The
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Whatever next for the Arabian city that has an artificial ski slope covered
in snow even when the temperature hits 50C? Not to mention the world’s
tallest building, some 7,000 metres (2,300 ft) high, rising above palm-
shaped artificial archipelagos in the warm waters of the Persian Gulf. Oh,
and a growth rate of 16% and a population where foreigners in need of
“luxury” homes outnumber locals. Well, what about the world’s first
rotating skyscraper? Commissioned by the Dubai Property Ring, a firm of
UK-based developers, the 30-storey apartment block will use solar energy
to power 20 electric motors that will rotate the tower through 360 degrees
over the course