Sweden's New Skyscraper Is a Tower With a Twist

They put the lift in the middle.
I'm quite sure that all floors are quite square, it's just that they're a tiny bit shifted in relation to each other. :)
 
This building is a gigantic esthetic gimmick. They take a cool trick and do absolutely nothing with it. It looks hideous.
 
I like it. It's no good having all buildings looking the same. The colour scheme could be a little better though.
 
Reno said:
Arent the people in Scåne (sp?) Danish?
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The Swedish spelling is "Skåne".

That's a complex question, given the interrelated mess that's regional, national, and linguistic identity within the Nordic countries. But I believe the majority of Scanians today would self-identify as Swedes, not Danes. Some refuse to consider themselves either.
 
While I like the design (but how are the floors worked out, as the building looks tilted?), I would much rather pay much less for a cheaper apartment with the same view - I bet most of the cost in the $3,700/month charge is simply being in the building.
 
Design has it's place, but I prefer purely functional structures with optional design. In fact, being purely functional can be reassuring because it is not pretending to be something it is not.

Building shapes might be important, such as rounded structures standing against wind, but frivolous tampering with building structure does not make me feel secure.
 
I've worked out why I hate this building. It simultaneously lacks symmetry, phi, and circles. It also looks unstable and is too white. I really hate this building
 
stormbind said:
Design has it's place, but I prefer purely functional structures with optional design. In fact, being purely functional can be reassuring because it is not pretending to be something it is not.
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Maybe you do so prefer, but for normal people, purely functional buildings are distressing. Malmö's "Million Programme" residential areas (nowadays mostly turned into immigrant ghettoes) are a case in point.
 
Ginger_Ale said:
While I like the design (but how are the floors worked out, as the building looks tilted?), I would much rather pay much less for a cheaper apartment with the same view - I bet most of the cost in the $3,700/month charge is simply being in the building.
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I dont think its tilted, jut a funny camera angle.
Also, i expect the rooms to all be exactly like any other room in a tower block, not with slanted walls or anything. It would make sense to build it like a normal tower, slightly turning each floor, then on the outside exagreate the slantedness. So the walls would still be perfectly verticle.
Anyway, i really like it, but i wouldnt pay huge amounts of money to live in it, since when your inside, you wouldnt se the wonderful architecture outside.
 
Now they only need some twisted chairs, beds, cupboards to fit into that thing and it will be great.

And some twisted people to live in it :)
 
Whomp said:
I wonder if it's the same architect, Santiago Calatrava, who designed this proposed building.


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Calatrava built the Milwaukee Art Musuem which has wings that move to shield the art from the sun. Very cool.
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When and where is this from?

On the building that is the topic of the thread, it looks like the floors are slightly mis-sphapen, but I'm sure they're straight, and that it's just the angle.
 
Sorry to threadjack here. I was just curious if it was the same architect on both buildings.

@Gogf-- The article was from the Chicago Tribune a few weeks ago and Donald Trump doesn't think they'll get financing and it won't work (I'm sure because it would compete with his building which is to the right in the picture). Properties in this new building would start at $5 million.
 
Double post
 
I much prefer that second corkscrew building (at least how it looks on paper) to the first one. I don't know what it is about that first one...just seems off to me...
 
I have a new theory. I reckon it looks funny because it is only a 90 degree twist, in a specific direction. They need to twist it more.
 
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