Dr. David Fisher’s Dynamic Tower is the first building in motion that will change its shape and add a fourth dimension to architecture: Time. The shape will be determined by each floor’s direction of rotation, speed, acceleration and the timing; with timing meaning how each floor rotates compared to the other. The rotation speed will be between 60 minutes and 24 hours for one revolution.

Residents, if they own the entire floor, are able to control the speed and direction of the rotation by voice command. One can have breakfast watching the sunrise, lunch viewing the open sea, and dinner overlooking the lights of the city – all from the same place inside their unit. The other floors will be commanded by the architect, by the mayor or whoever will have the password to the computer program that will give the building a different shape at every glance.

According to Dr Fisher, these buildings will be designed by all of us, at any given moment, and will be shaped according to our needs, our present concepts of design and quite importantly, our moods – as an expression of freedom, beginning for the first time in history to control the shape of our homes and cities.

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Evoking images of flying saucers, interplanetary space pods and science fiction futurism, the Futuro house offered homeowners a chance to live in the future without ever leaving their front yards. Finnish architect Matti Suuronen designed the Futuro house in 1968 but only 96 of the fiberglass-reinforced polyester plastic pods were produced over a 5-year period – killed by the 1973 Oil Crisis that tripled the price of plastics.

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Dubai may well be the City of dreams in the future. It continues to grow at a pace that surpasses the whole taken as a whole, and Dubai is building up onto its own mini universe. And combine that with an architecture, that is more like its from the next century only adds to the sheer beauty of Dubai.

The bridge that you are seeing in the picture above is going to be the world’s largest and tallest Arch bridge. Envisioned by the New York Architect Firm Fxfowle , it starts construction from next month. Here are some statistics of this amazing masterpiece of Engineering.

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The United Arab Emirates gets all the attention for crazy urban schemes—from zero-carbon cities to kinetic, swirling skyscrapers. South Korea is lesser known, but it’s also got grand ambitions and tech-crazed urban planners: For example, New Songdo City, currently being developed on reclaimed land 40 miles outside of Seoul, will have a wireless network that connects residential, business, and medical systems and computers studding the houses and streets.

No wonder then that South Korea has an appetite for futuristic architectural schemes. A current show in Ansan, just south of Seoul, displays four pie-in-the-sky schemes for reinventing the city, designed by four buzzed-about architecture firms: BIG in Copenhagen, INABA in L.A., MAD in Beijing, and Mass Studies in Seoul. The big idea is to make architecture made of stand-alone units, which would allow projects to be expanded or scaled back during planning. (One of the big problems with big projects is that developers get stuck with huge buildings just as the economy tanks.)

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SeaOrbiter is a unique vessel in the world, developing a new concept for man’s underwater observation, continuously twenty-four hours a day. It will permit a better understanding of marine phenomena and a new inventory of ocean wealth for the preservation of its resources, as well as those of our planet. It is at once a revolutionary and indispensable human adventure for future generations.

It is also a true platform of communication, within educational reach, the motor of a new adventure proposed to men around the Mediterranean, Europe and the world to fully understand the ocean and its ecosystems, to respect and to live in harmony with them. SeaOrbiter is today accompanied by a large committee of internationally renowned experts coming from multiple domains of state-of-the-art competence, as well as by numerous manufacturers linked to maritime technologies throughout the world. This project, of great symbolic weight, created by architect Jacques Rougerie, is above all a “gift to the generations to come”. By combining the latest technology and the taste for adventure, we propose to them a maritime adventure unique since Cousteau.

To promote a message of hope for humanity. Thanks to the vessel conceived by architect Jacques Rougerie the “aquanauts”,true “astronauts of the sea”, will permit the public to participate continuously and in real time in the observation of the subaquatic world and in the life at the heart of the marine environment. The internet, a necessary complement to this tool, will provide discussion forums and exchanges which will contribute to the emotional and coalescing development with the marine element. As such, Humanity will be more inclined to preserve its immense territories that have resources yet to be exploited – notably biomedical – and that participate in the construction of climatic phenomena. With SeaOrbiter, France provides a structuralizing project susceptible of changing the behaviour of man in their relationship with the resources of the Planet, one of which is the ocean. This is one of the objectives of the European Union with its policy on the Sea.

It is also a priority in France which expressed itself recently with the launching of the “Grenelle de l’environment” or Grenelle Environment Round Table. Finally, it is a major axis of the Union Project of the Mediterranean established by President Nicolas Sarkozy. For SeaOrbiter is apt to unify man, institutions and nations for one common objective: our future. For all these reasons, this revolutionary project, for which the technological feasibility is abound and has been validated by the best maritime specialists including DCNS, must be provided for in the future cooperative programs being considered for the construction and the preservation of better environmental and secure quality in the Mediterranean basin.

However this will be a first step, because the focus is to eventually provide a “vessel” by ocean or by interior sea. Today SeaOrbiter is already a global project.Here we have a fantastic opportunity to place France at the heart of the development programs in the domain of sustainable technologies in the world. This project is the project of a multidisciplinary team that was built after eight years of work at that came together around an idea and a dream long held by Jacques Rougerie. Well known in France and in the world for the many marine related projects he has completed, he has just been recognized by his peers who have recently elected him to the Institute of France – Academy of Fine Arts.

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That gleaming Metropolis on the horizon? – Something to aspire to, the glorious destination to dream about, to shape your life accordingly and reach it as the utmost reward… Such ideas were popular in the infant days of futurism, in fantastic literature on both sides of the Atlantic.

Thankfully the “mega-urbanism” dream is replaced today by quite the opposite idea of an affluent living in the country – but frankly, both seem to be unattainable, clean-cut ideals that’s only pretty to look at. And look at them we will – presenting again the rarely-seen examples of urbanism and architecture, some from the Eastern Bloc “popular science” publications and promotional literature.

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It’s common knowledge that the planet is warming, ice caps are melting, and water levels are rising. The international scientific community predicts that a temperature elevation of 1°C will lead to a water rise of 1 meter, resulting in massive land loss and the displacement of millions of people world wide. Vincent Callebaut, a visionary Belgian architect, is responding to this inevitability with his proposal LILYPAD, A Floating Ecopolis for Ecological Refugees.

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Zorlu Ecocity is a Llewelyn Davies Yeang project located in Istanbul, Turkey.  It’s a mixed-use development located at the southern extremity of Buyukdere Street in Istanbul.  The plan is conceptualized as a “city within a city” and conforms to the city’s planning strategy to multiply the number of urban centers throughout the Marma region to relieve pressure on Istanbul’s historic core. Zorlu Ecocity will have 588,850 sm (6,338,329 sf) of accommodation, which includes office towers, residential towers, two hotels, apartments, and resort-style elderly units above a three story retail complex.  In total, we’re talking about 14 towers ranging from 8 to 26 stories.

Zorlu Ecocity is a Llewelyn Davies Yeang project located in Istanbul, Turkey.  It’s a mixed-use development located at the southern extremity of Buyukdere Street in Istanbul.  The plan is conceptualized as a “city within a city” and conforms to the city’s planning strategy to multiply the number of urban centers throughout the Marma region to relieve pressure on Istanbul’s historic core.  Zorlu Ecocity will have 588,850 sm (6,338,329 sf) of accommodation, which includes office towers, residential towers, two hotels, apartments, and resort-style elderly units above a three story retail complex.  In total, we’re talking about 14 towers ranging from 8 to 26 stories.

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Historically in art, The Three Graces have been viewed as a symbol of lasting unity that represent joy, beauty and charm. NOX | Lars Spuybroek has designed a family of towers called The Three Graces in Dubai which emulates that very dynamic. The family of towers, which are currently in progress, will be interconnected by a footbridge that will reduce footprints on the piers. The symbolism of unity will make The Three Graces appear as a gate to the harbor on which it is situated.

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To deal with the lack of fresh water in Dubai and other Arabian nations, Italian architectural firm Studiomobile created the Seawater Vertical Farm to cool and humidify greenhouses. This innovative concept produces adequate humidity to convert seawater into fresh water, necessary for irrigation.

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