Sweden's New Skyscraper Is a Tower With a Twist

[Narz]

It's quite ugly. Makes me dizzy just looking at it. Whatever happened to strength, clean lines and grace in architecture.

Almost as visually displeasing as the Gugenhiem museum in New York.

 

[vbraun]

The shape actually makes the building able to withstand wind more because the wind does not focus on one side of the building.

 

[Dann]

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.

Yup. The stairs, lifts etc. are all in a regular core in the center, which stays the same size and orientation throughout the building. It's the outer area which they play with, rotating it a bit every floor and decreasing its dimensions as well in order to achieve the overall effect.

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.

To do that the building will have to be even higher, like the 2nd building by Calatrava. Remember you can't rotate every floor too much, the building has to be tapering, and the size of the top floor is limited by the size of the service core.

 

[Maniacal]

Cool! They need more buildings on other shapes.

 

[The Yankee]

Now that it's mentioned, I think the Freedom Tower design is supposed to look like it's twisting even though it's just a different shaping of the floors, from rectangular toward octagonal...

Though...this first building just looks weird and strange...

 

[The Last Conformist]

It's quite ugly. Makes me dizzy just looking at it. Whatever happened to strength, clean lines and grace in architecture.

Strength? As in concrete bunkers?

Making a building look strong when there's no need for it is just boring macho posturing.

 

[Red Stranger]

Did the Swedenian also build the Leaning Tower of Pisa?

 

[Narz]

Strength? As in concrete bunkers?

Making a building look strong when there's no need for it is just boring macho posturing.

There is always a need.

Think terrorists, hurricanes, etc. etc.

 

[The Last Conformist]

Hurricanes don't happen up here, and won't start to absent quite serious climate change. I'm sure it's more than strong enough to withstand the winter storms we do get (like the one in Jan. that pulled down millions of trees, causing huge economic losses for the timber industry).

As for human attack, even if we gave it ten-metre walls of reinforced concrete, a sufficiently powerful attack would tear it down. You have to make a judgement where increased security isn't worth the costs.

 

[Volum]

Those twisted Swedes.

That was my first idea for a witty comment, but you beat me to it

 

[thetrooper]

That was my first idea for a witty comment, but you beat me to it

I got that one for free.

 

[Reno]

There is always a need.

Think terrorists, hurricanes, etc. etc.

Only problem with that is that Sweden is not likely to be attacked by Terrorists and Hurricanes are not happening in our neighbor. There are trombs but no Hurricanes.

 

[EdwardTking]

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

Normally If i drink a lot, things look all skew, but I dare
say I'd have to drink a lot to see it straight and live there.

In England a bent building likely that would be unlikely to
attract banks projecting stability, more likely to be a hit with
gay, creative and artistic people; but maybe the Scanians
brains are really hard wired quite differently from me.