The most elegant examples of the wind tower still stand in Dubai’s historic quarter of Al Bastakiya – known locally as The Creek – where Persian traders created ornate structures built of ...

Long before our reliance on air-conditioning, Dubai's old town kept people's homes cool using a combination of clever ...

These ingenious towers, open on all four sides, are wind-catchers, funnelling the breeze into a central shaft to cool the room below. Throw water on the floor beneath the tower and evaporation ...

Dubai has garnered much attention in recent years with a never-ending supply of architectural wonders being built, ... Rotating Wind Power Tower to begin construction in Dubai ...

Given Dubai has an average of 4000 hours of wind annually, with an average wind speed of 16 km/h, the turbines are estimated to produce around 1,200,000 kilowatt-hours of energy per year.

We’ve reported before on Israeli-Italian architect David Fisher‘s crazy rotating Dynamic Tower – and now it looks like the 1,375-foot-tall high-rise is finally becoming a reality.

Based on the analysis of wind velocities recorded at Dubai International Airport from 1984 to 2008, the basic wind velocity for Dubai was 30 metres per second, which is equivalent to 108km/h. But once ...

Per capita, Dubai is one of the world's largest consumers of energy, largely for air conditioning. Sustainable cooling could come from adaptation of traditional Arabian wind towers ...

Per capita, Dubai is one of the world's largest consumers of energy, largely for air conditioning. Sustainable cooling could come from adaptation of traditional Arabian wind towers ...