A group of investors have put plans together to construct a $1bn ‘rotating city’ in the emirates leisure complex of DubaiLand, according to reports in Dubai.

The project is expected to include around twenty apartment towers with rotating floors, as well as separate villas that revolve while moving up and down on supports.

A senior source involved in the project’s planning said: “It’s very unique. It’s the first rotating city in the world.”

He added: “You will be able to acquire villas, apartments, floating villas on water, and flying villas that elevate in the air. So you have the accessibility to a villa that not only rotates on ground, but it gives you up to a 15 metre to 20 metre up in-the-air elevation. It’s a mind-blowing project. We will have 20 towers with every single floor rotating."