Sometimes where it's a slow morning for design news, we head to our go to solution: Dubai. Only there can you immediately find something strange to talk about. Case in point, it's being reported that occasional architect David Fisher, who has never designed a skyscraper before, has decided that he wants to construct an 80-story building in Dubai that will rotate and twist and spin on command and will have extra amenities like wind turbines sticking out everywhere and elevators that will lift cars all the way up to people's apartments, no matter what floor they're on. All of it sounds just completely insane, including Fisher himself, but then you remember that it's Dubai, so the building will likely exist by next year. Here's a bit about Fisher's questionable past:

In a biography he had been distributing for months, he said he graduated from the University of Florence in 1976, came to New York in the mid-1980s and later developed hotels and ran a company that specialized in stone and prefabricated construction materials.

The biography also said he received an honorary doctorate from "The Prodeo Institute at Columbia University in New York." No such institution exists, however, and Columbia said it had never awarded Fisher an honorary degree.