The World’s Only Revolving Apartment Building


We can always count on Hanan at Grow-a-brain to find the unusual. Today, he linked to our post Rotating Home: Sit & Spin in California. But he also had a great link to Suite Vollard in Curitiba, Brazil, the world’s only revolving building. What’s unique is it’s an apartment building where each unit has the ability to rotate to get a 360 degree panoramic view of the city.

Each apartment has its own independent engine system, which can be engaged with a remote control. A complete clockwise or counterclockwise 360º turn takes one hour and the system is equipped with a programming timer. I’d have all my dinners facing the west to catch the beautiful sunsets.

Architects Bruno de Franco, also technical director with Moro, the Brazilian builder, and Sérgio Silka designed the project.

5 Responses to “The World’s Only Revolving Apartment Building”


  1. 1 Gzy Aug 18th, 2006 at 10:07 am

    This is a fantastic building i appreciate its architecture and i will suggest him to make the whole world like this building.

  2. 2 sellsius° Aug 18th, 2006 at 10:46 am

    Ha. Yes, we love it too.

  3. 3 indira Sep 22nd, 2007 at 9:18 am

    This is a fantastic building I appreciate its architecture
    I want to know much about this type of building details how they works.

  4. 4 Coastal panoramas Mar 24th, 2008 at 1:43 pm

    Can’t be long before one of these is built ten times as big in Dubai!

  5. 5 shanu Jun 27th, 2008 at 2:49 am

    hai
    really nice and wonderfull engineering great

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