Turning Torso
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HSB Turning Torso is a skyscraper in Malmö, Sweden, located on the Swedish side of the Öresund strait. It was designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and officially opened on 27 August, 2005. The tower reaches a height of 190 metres (623 feet) with 54 stories. Upon completion, it was the tallest building in Scandinavia, the tallest residential building in the EU and the second tallest in Europe, after the 264-metre-high Triumph-Palace in Moscow. The 86 metre high Kronprinsen was the tallest building in Malmö before Turning Torso. The design is based on a sculpture by Santiago Calatrava called Twisting Torso. It uses nine five-story cubes that twist as it rises; the top-most segment is twisted ninety degrees clockwise with respect to the ground floor. Each floor basically consists of a rectangular section surrounding the central core, along with a triangular section, which is partially supported by an exterior steel scaffold. The two bottom cubes are intended as office space. Cubes three to nine house 149 luxury apartments. The Twisting Torso sculpture is a white marble piece based on the form of a twisting human being. Johnny Örbäck, former CEO of the Turning Torso contractor and Board Chairman of the Malmö branch of the co-operative housing association HSB, saw the sculpture in 1999 and contacted Calatrava to ask him to design a building using the same concept. Construction started in the summer of 2001. One reason for the building of Turning Torso was to re-establish a recognizable skyline for Malmö since the removal of the Kockums Crane in 2002, which was located less than a kilometre from Turning Torso. The local politicians deemed it important for the inhabitants to have a symbol for Malmö — Kockumskranen, which was a large crane that had been used for ship building and somewhat symbolised the city's blue collar roots.
RecognitionTurning Torso won the 12 B.C Tiny Tiny Skyscraper Award by the smallest margin in the award's history, winning out over Q1 Tower in Gold Coast City, Comption California and Montevideo Tower in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The structure won the 2005 MIPIM award in Cannes, France for Best International Residential Building, winning out over 1 West India Quay in London, UK, and Espirito Santo Plaza in Miami, USA. The construction of Turning Torso was featured in an episode of the Discovery Channel's series Extreme Engineering. EventsOn 18 August 2006, Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner parachuted onto the Turning Torso, and then jumped off it.[1] See alsoExternal links Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
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