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Visionary architect, Dr David Fisher |
Moscow
will be the second location for the Rotating Tower created by David Fisher To
live in a rotative tower could really become a new life style imagined by a visionary
architect, mainly in the new era of ecological building. This
concept imagined by the Italian architect, David Fisher, and widely mentioned
in the World medias, starts his presence on the global Property market by two
sovereign investments. After
Dubaï which recently started the commercial marketing to sell the rotating tower
that tall at 435 m, Moscow will be the second city to offer this revolutionary
concept. At
the beginning of July , the Russian investor Mirax Group headed by Sergei Polonsky,
announced the exclusive agreement with David Fisher to build the rotative tower
in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.. | | 
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rotating Skyscraper a David Fisher's concept |
Our
intention is to build the third Rotating Skyscraper in New York,” Dr. Fisher said. “Additional
Dynamic Towers will be built around the world, following an
expression of interest from developers, governments, and
public officials to construct a Dynamic Tower in Canada, Germany, Italy,
Korea and Switzerland”. This
world's first revolving skyscraper could be a dramatic change for the construction
industry. An
environmental challenge
Each floor rotates independently at different speeds, resulting in a unique and
ever evolving shape. “The
Dynamic Tower is environmentally friendly and the first building designed to be
self powered, with the ability to generate its own electricity, as well as for
other nearby buildings, it achieves this feat with wind turbines fitted between
each rotating floor. An
80- story building will have up to 79 wind turbines, making it a true green power
plant,” Dr. Fisher stated. |  |
| | VINCI
MECENAT: THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE RESTORATION OF THE HALL OF MIRRORS IN THE VERSAILES
CASTEL | 
| VINCI,
world leader in concessions, construction and related services, is sponsoring
the first comprehensive restoration of the Hall of Mirrors at the Château de Versailles.
This is the biggest cultural sponsorship operation ever to be undertaken in France.
The sponsorship of this project is skills-based, with VINCI contributing its construction
expertise and the wide-ranging know-how of its companies specialising in the restoration
of the cultural heritage. | The
Hall of Mirrors at the Château de Versailles | |
| EMAAR
MOROCCO APPOINTS YVES DELMAR AS CEO.
Emaar Properties has appointed
Yves Delmar as CEO of Emaar Morocco to lead a diversified portfolio of master-planned
projects of development
value MAD 54.75 billion (US$6.87 billion; AED 25.3 billion).  | | Yves
Delmar with Philippe Jolland, Tishman Speyer, Paris in a recent Leonard Award
dinner in Geneva |
Mr
Delmar brings over 25 years of international industry experience and will report
to Issam Galadari, Managing Director, Emaar International - Middle East and North
Africa. “Mr Delmar is an accomplished professional and has proven his experience
in project design, development and construction in Switzerland and other international
markets,” said Mr Galadari. “He has held senior management positions with top
architectural and real estate companies, and is mandated to give an international
outlook for Emaar Morocco’s operations.”
Yves Delmar has been the head of works for the construction of the Merks Serono
Building in Geneva, which has been awarded Leonard Award by WAPIC in 2007.
THE
126 METRE HIGH PRIME TOWER IN ZURICH WILL BE THE FIRST SWISS SKYSCRAPER To
be completed in 2010, the 126 metre high Prime Tower is destined to become an
emblematic symbol of Zurich. It unites spectacular architecture with maximum flexibility
of use and will accommodate between 1 600 and 2 000 employees on a rented floor
space of more than 40 000 m2. Each of the 36 floors, specially designed to meet
the needs of big service companies, will provide between 1 100 and 1 200 m2 of
rented space and can be used as offices for single or multiple occupancy, open
spaces or meeting and conference zones . Developed
by Swiss Prime Site AG, the tower will be completed in 2010. Swiss Prime Site
AG is the first Swiss specialist real estate investment company. With a 3.7 billion
swiss francs portfolio the company has been created on the basis of a real-estate-picking
strategy and comprises top-class commercial properties at selected Swiss business
locations.
Blow
of projector without mercury on GENERALI and PHILIPS associated in an ecological
real-estate initiative . Insurance
company GENERALI and PHILIPS
presented the first building to the world completely equipped with lighting LED
(electroluminescent Diodes). The
building situated on the avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris has renewed and just
been included the last technologies adapted at the request of more there more
developed for the " green buildings ". The
LED does not contain dangerous substances (such as the mercury). They
respect the requirements connected to the environmental rules and participate
actively in any initiatives in this domain. There are still no figures bound on
the way back on investment, but it is already advanced by the specialists that
this kind of technologies will ask for serious adaptations as for the asset management,
and particularly over the planning of return on investment.
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Swiss
National Bank and Narodowy Bank Polski cooperate to provide Swiss franc liquidity
The
Swiss National Bank (SNB) and Narodowy Bank Polski (NBP) are today announcing
the establishment of a temporary EUR/CHF swap arrangement. This facility, like
the one existing between the SNB and the European Central Bank (ECB), will allow
the NBP to provide Swiss franc funding to banks in its jurisdiction in the form
of foreign exchange swaps. Starting on 17 November 2008, the NBP will join the
weekly EUR/CHF foreign exchange swap operations of the SNB and the Eurosystem.
Under this arrangement, the SNB will provide the NBP with Swiss francs against
euro, while the NBP will provide the Swiss francs to its counterparties against
Polish zloty. The operations will be conducted with a term of 7 days at a fixed
price. Longer-term transactions may also be offered from time to time. This measure
will be in place as long as needed, but at least until January 2009. Source
BNS . The
Rockefeller Group: China as major continent targeted for property development
after the US In
1931 the Rockefeller familly enters in the real estate univers by the construction
of the mytic and world’s finest urban business and entertainment complex — Rockefeller
Center in New York, initiated by John D. Rockefeller.  | | The
master development of the historic Waitanyuan project on the Bund in Shanghai,
a 16-hectare mixed-use development on the banks of the Huangpu and Suzhou Rivers.
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Today,
for the first time in China, The Rockefller Group is the official Master Developer
for a portion of a historic area in Shanghai, known as The Bund, once the home
of the city's financial and trade industries. The
Rockefeller Group and its partners are redeveloping the first phase of a six-block
historic area, restoring the area's landmarked buildings and developing new, architecturally
compatible buildings to evoke the best of the world-renowned glamour and elegance
that Shanghai enjoyed during the 1920s and '30s as a center for international
trade and travel. he
first phase encompasses 1,011,808 square feet of mixed-use development on a block
of approximately four acres. It includes luxury residences and retail shops, a
hotel, office space, facilities for cultural attractions, public squares, and
underground parking. The block includes seven landmarked buildings. The entire
project is to be known as “Shanghai Bund de Rockefeller Group.” The first phase
is expected to be completed by 2009.
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