Something about David Fisher's somewhat sky-pie plan for an eighty-story
"building in motion" in Dubai, comprised of independently rotating floors, reminds me of William Gibson's descriptions of a post-megaquake Tokyo in the
Bridge novels, wherein the city's future-shock skyline is reconstructed at the molecular level by nanotechnology, shimmering skyscrapers literally pulsating biomechanically upward with what the author describes in
Idoru as "a streamlined organicism." I would use that phrase to describe what Fisher is reaching for as well.
In all likelihood, given sundry engineering
uncertainties about the proposed structure, and various factual inconsistencies in the architect's biography pertaining to his credentials, the sci-fi-worthy project is probably more fiction than science—but it's an intriguing idea.