Revolutionary Tower in Brazil

An anonymous reader writes "Have you ever thought about retiring in Brazil? If you have thought about doing so, this might be just the piece of real estate you were looking for. 'An unusual apartment building was inaugurated in Brazil, each of whose 11 storeys turns independently, giving lucky residents 360-degree views of the eco-friendly city of Curitiba.' Now, if they could only tilt it a little bit to look like Pisa's Tower..."

Counter rotating bed...

[superlime]

All you need is a counter rotating bed, and it'd be the perfect bachelor pad!

-superlime

Dead or Alive

[Code-Ex]

You spin me right round, baby
Right round like a record, baby
Right round round round
You spin me right round, baby
Right round like a record, baby
Right round round round

The revolution...

[Anonymous Coward]

will be remote-controlled

revolutionary indeed...

[the_skywise]

It's only revolutionary if the space I purchase rotates counter to the other rings.

Thank god! At last!

[EnronHaliburton2004]

I was wondering how I was going to screw in that lightbulb...

Don't p*ss of the maintenance people...

[Create an Account]

...next thing you know, they turn the RPMs up to about 60 and you're stuck to the outside wall.

Great for the folks on the top few floors...

[tattoi.nobori]

But what about folks on the bottom of the stack? $300k seems a bit steep for a remote-controlled, revolving street-level apartment. ^_^ "hey look honey, it's the gas station again! ...there's the liquor store... yep.. alright! gas station again!"

Darkology

[Facekhan]

I just want to live in a Darkology.

Re:The revolution...

[Nasheer]

"

So what happens when your girlfriend starts screaming "Faster!"?"

You vomit over her?
Plain and simple.

Just imagine

[GrueMaster]

If the woman in the apartment across the street were to walk around naked, how fast would each level turn & focus on her?

Nice

[Laugurinn]

I had a vision. A 6 storey rubic's cube with horizontal 360 scrolling.

Re:Think about the electric bill

[unixbugs]

from the article: The owner may also change the direction and speed of the revolutions. At low speed, each floor takes an hour to revolve.

lets overclock it...

So would this mean ...

[stwrtpj]

... that if a bunch of Marxists decided to hold one of their meetings in this place, they would be plotting Communist revolutions? (Ba-DUM)

Re:Counter rotating bed...

[HappyClown]

Brings whole new meaning to the expression "Did you get out of the wrong side of bed this morning?"

Re:11 stories not good for retirement

[tarp]

You think they'd build a revolving building like this and NOT have an elevator?

Re:Brazil? Why would you want to live there?

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow. That place is beautiful. I didn't know that nice places like that exist in many parts of the world outside of US and especially in South America.

Re:Counter rotating bed...

[AmberBlackCat]

That actually sounds like a good idea. Maybe they could have a whole section of the living space that stays fixed while the outer ring rotates.

My first thought was they should make three identical buildings and fabricate a giant robot hand to solve the Towers of Hanoi problem.

They should also put some things in there like prisms or compasses to make all of the rotation a lot more interesting.

But that's using 1950's technology

[i41Overlord]

The Seattle Space Needle uses a one-horsepower motor to rotate its restaraunt once per hour. It can be done easily.

I'm sure with modern technology, we could design a much more powerful motor that would spin the restaurant at 15,000 rpm.

fixed asset

[kcelery]

It redefines the meaning of fixed asset.

Can't wait!

[The Real Nem]

In a similar trend to Alek's Christmas Lights webcam, anonymous internet users will be able to adjust the direction and velocity of each floor with a click of a button.

In other news, researchers intrigued my innovative new earthquake simulation technologies, begun flocking to Curitiba in force.

Re:Don't p*ss of the maintenance people...

[pjt33]

What a wasted opportunity for a "first against the wall when the revolution comes" joke.

Re:But that's using 1950's technology

[AndrewStephens]

The Seattle Space Needle uses a one-horsepower motor to rotate its restaraunt once per hour. It can be done easily.

I'm sure with modern technology, we could design a much more powerful motor that would spin the restaurant at 15,000 rpm.

Thats how they clean it. Every night the last person out fulls the restaraunt with warm-soapy water and then pushes the spin-cycle button. 45 minutes later the whole place is clean, fresh, and ready for the next day.

Re:The sad thing is...

[Anonymous Coward]

Anyone younger than 20 probably has no idea what a record is.

Sure we do; it's that thing you use in COBOL...

But I admit, I have no idea why it should spin.

But, it's funny.

[eMartin]

"More intelligent Mods, combatting this silly policy, sometimes mod funny posts Informative etc. so humorous posters are rewarded with Karma."

If the guy was posting for karma, he would have posted something informative.

Re:revolutionary indeed...

[Anonymous Coward]

I think that would be counter-revolutionary.