2727I want a rotating apartment!

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Dec. 17, 2004

 

 

I'll Take You for a Spin in My Apartment...

20 minutes ago Oddly Enough - Reuters



SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - Feel like you need to turn your life
around? Then a new apartment building in the Brazilian city of
Curitiba could be for you.



Each floor in the 11-story building can revolve independently 360
degrees to the left or to the right.


"This is the only building in the world in which each apartment can
spin individually," said Joao Carlos Peters, marketing director at
the Moro construction company.


The project took 10 years to complete and the suites, which each
occupy an entire floor of the circular building, went on sale on
Thursday for $300,000.


"This is really a work of art because this was based on an entirely
new concept of living," Peters said.


Spinning in the high-tech building is activated by voice commands. It
takes an hour for each 3,000-square-foot (300-square-meter) apartment
to complete one rotation.


"You can't have it spin any faster because you need the turning to be
subtle," Peters said.