Heliotrope House by Rolf Disch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tlW0N1ltHQ
A strange cylindrical spinning building that towers over its more conventional neighbors at the edge of Germany’s Black Forest, Heliotrope House by solar architect Rolf Disch follows the path of the sun to take in as much energy as possible. Completed in 1994, long before most green energy homes, the tower house produces up to five times more energy than it consumes.
Suite Vollard
The world’s first spinning apartment building, Suite Vollard is a futuristic residential tower in Curitiba, Brazil, and was completed in 2001. Its floors rotate in opposite directions, with a full revolution taking an hour. There’s one apartment on nine of the eleven levels, with the two bottom floors operating as an executive center. Utilities and building services are located in the core.
La Mesa Spinning House
This four-bedroom house atop Mouth Helix in La Mesa, California looks out onto the mountains and the sea from the glass-walled top floor living room. Designed and built by the homeowners, who are not architects or builders by trade, the rotating home was completed in 2004.
Skyscraper with Flapping Wings
Images of spacecrafts inspired Californian architecture firm amphibianArc in the creation of this shape-shifting exhibition center concept for Chinese industrial vehicle manufacturer Zoomlion. Seven pods with facades that flap like the wings of an insect project from an office tower, each representing one of the seven founders of Zoomlion.
Bonus: Falkirk Wheel
While technically infrastructure rather than architecture, Falkirk Wheel has a dynamic movement that’s just too cool to leave out. Connecting Scotland’s Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal, the lift raises boat nearly 80 feet into the air to send them off to the other canal or vice versa. The design takes its inspiration from the shape of a Celtic double-headed axe, and rotates about once per ten minutes.
