Spinning Architecture, Coming Around Again


I had found two revolving buildings– a private home that spun in California and a revolving apartment building in Brazil. Then I discovered a revolving residential tower planned in Dubai. (see below)

Well, I just found another:

Villa Girasole (”Sunflower”), located in Marcellise, Italy (near Verona).

This amazing revolving house was built between 1929 and 1935 by engineer Angelo Invernizzi and architect Ettore Fagiuoli. The idea was to create a home to follow the motion of the sun (a sort of permanent southern exposure).  A diesel engine pushes the 1500 ton house slowly over circular tracks. (it takes over 9 hours to fully rotate).

Villa Girasole is currently owned by the Invernizzi Foundation and the Architecture Academy of Mendrisio (Switzerland).

A view of Villa Girasole from Google Earth:

Source: Deputydog.

Other Spinners:

Planned in Dubai

Suite Vollard (Brazil)

sit and spin in California

Other unusual architectural posts.

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  • The Spinner being built by Dynamic Architecture in Dubai is by far the most high-tech. It will consist of 78 floors with wind generating turbines between each floor that will generate approximately 10 times the amount of electricity needed to power the building. This is ultra-greeen-built-on-organic-seriods.


    See gizmag article


    view YouTube video

  • MurfreesboroJulia
    There is a spinning bar in Nashville, TN inside the cascade garden in Opryland Hotel. .just the bar area rotates but it's nice because you can see the view of the beautiful gardens while you sit at different angles. I believe it rotates once an hour.
  • Nice. As your head spins, so does the bar. Maybe they cancel each other out
    and you feel fine :)
  • Victoria
    A recent Extreme Living show on HGTV featured a fab revolving home referred to as the "Super Saucer" built for a family in upstate New York. It uses passive solar energy too. I am trying to locate designer and plans.
  • Thanks Victoria.
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