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Dynamic Architecture Building) is a proposed 313 m (1,027 ft), 68-floor tower in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.[2] The tower is expected to be architecturally innovative for several reasons. Uniquely, each floor will be able to rotate independently.[3] This will result in a constantly changing shape of the tower. Each floor will rotate a maximum of 6 metres (20 feet) per minute, or one full rotation in 90 minutes.[3][1] It will also be the world's first prefabricated skyscraper.[1] 90% of the tower will be built in a factory and shipped to the construction site.[1] This will allow the entire building to be built in only 18 months.[1] The only part of the tower that will be built at the construction site will be the core.[1] Part of this prefrabrication will be the decrease in cost and number of workers. The total cost will be 23% less than a normal skyscraper of the same size, while only 90 people will work on the construction site.[4] The majority of the workers will be in factories, where it will be much safer.[4] The entire tower will be powered from turbines and solar panels, and five other buildings in the vicinity will also be provided with electricity.[2] The turbines will be located between each of the rotating floors.[5] They will generate 1,200,000 kilowatt-hours of energy from the movement of the floors, and the solar panels will be located on the roof.[2][5][4] Construction of the Da Vinci Tower, if built, is expected to be completed in 2009.