We do lots of things in architecture that involves new technology, but usually the technology is first introduced in businesses or civil structures before it winds up in home living space.
The problem with technology, in my mind, is that it becomes outdated. It doesn't hold up well as time passes, and while we may already have all-weather stadiums or revolving buildings, how will these buildings be a hundred years from now? The technology becomes anachronistic of the period it came from, and technology, at least in the modern day, is a disposable item, discarded as soon as the new revision is released.
I suspect that this building will break at some point, and it will be fixed. And it will break again, and they will fix it again. At some point in this break-fix cycle, someone will decide that the novelty of revolution is not worth fixing, and then this building will be like all the other buildings.
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