Flashback

Anyone who has studied in Delft knows the tall red building of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science. It's a big red thin slab that seems to create a local weather system of itself. Failure to brace for impact can get you knocked to the ground by what almost seems like a very local hurricane..
Anyone who's been the unfortunate victim of this has no doubt thought how all that energy could be put to good use, maybe by bolting some wind turbines to the building.





Finally someone has put this idea to practice, albeit not in Delft.
The Strata building (by Brookfield Europe) has been specifically designed to put all this energy to good use. The big integrated turbines will create an expected 50MWh of energy:



link: http://www.inhabitat.com/2010/03/15/the-strata-worlds-first-skyscraper-with-built-in-wind-turbines/