Sweden's New Skyscraper Is a Tower With a Twist

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MALMO, Sweden (Aug. 27) - The Nordics' tallest skyscraper was officially opened Saturday with prize-winning Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava surveying the view from the 54th floor.

With its spectacular 90-degree twist, Turning Torso consists of nine stacked cubes, each turned slightly.

The bottom three cubes will be office space and the top six contain 147 luxury apartments. Many residents, who are expected to move to the rented apartments in November, will have a view overlooking either the flat farmland of Skane, Sweden's southernmost province, or the Oresund strait and Denmark.

"There was a wish to get something exceptional," Calatrava said after accepting a prize from local authorities. "I also wanted to deliver something technically unique."

The HSB housing cooperative that built the skyscraper originally planned condominiums only, but decided to rent the apartments because of the high costs. The most expensive apartment will be rented for about euro3,000 (US$3,700) a month.

The 54-story Turning Torso apartment tower in Malmo, Sweden.

Pretty cool!

 

[h4ppy]

I so called that twist.

 

[Gr3yL3gion]

That's a good looking architecture.

 

[Civrules]

It's pretty unique.

 

[Yuri2356]

Those crazy Sweedes and their towers...

 

[vbraun]

Thats awesome.

 

[The Yankee]

Some designs for the rebuilt World Trade Center had some strange designs. One of them looked like a spider with buildings twisting to go into each other.

 

[Tomoyo]

That is awesome.

 

[Whomp]

I wonder if it's the same architect, Santiago Calatrava, who designed this proposed building.

Calatrava built the Milwaukee Art Musuem which has wings that move to shield the art from the sun. Very cool.

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Wee and wee , that is immense. More twisted skyscrapers please.

 

[Stylesjl]

The swedes have done it again

 

[Dann]

I like it.

 

[Reno]

The Northeners have done it again, simply beautiful.

 

[amadeus]

Absolutely hideous.

 

[The Last Conformist]

If I could figure out why it's got an English name ...

 

[thetrooper]

Those twisted Swedes.

 

[SonicX]

Nice, too bad the city of Malmö is already wasted though with it's ethnic problems and high crime rates.

 

[Truronian]

Absolutely hideous.

I agree. Ergonomical disaster IMO.

 

[mrtn]

I agree. Ergonomical disaster IMO.

Ergonomical? This is a house, mate, not a chair.

Personally I like it.

 

[Truronian]

Ergonomical? This is a house, mate, not a chair.

Personally I like it.

Yeah, but consider the shapes of the rooms in relation to the lift,a nd things like that. This building makes me want to vomit. IMO of course