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Turning Torso is a neo-futurist residential skyscraper built in Malmö, Sweden, in 2005. It was the tallest building in the Nordic region until September 2022, when it was surpassed by Karlatornet in Gothenburg .
Jul 7, 2024 · Santiago Calatrava‘s Turning Torso in Malmö is the tallest skyscraper in Sweden, pioneer of its kind. Step into this iconic building with us.
Aug 6, 2015 · Rotating a full 90 degrees along nine pentagonal sections, Santiago Calatrava's "Turning Torso" was deemed the world's first twisting skyscraper upon its completion in 2005.
Jul 24, 2020 · Want to know more about Turning Torso? An iconic building in Malmö, famous for its unique and twisting architecture. When the skyscraper was finished in 2005, it helped to put the third-largest city in Sweden on the world map.
Apr 19, 2017 · The Turning Torso helped put Malm back on the map as it strived to reinvent itself from backwater industrial city to an urban cultural center.
Turning Torso (torso in turn) is a residential skyscraper at 190 meters high and 54 plants located in the Swedish city of Malmo. It is the highest residential building in Sweden and the second in Europe (on the date of its inauguration), the work of Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.
The form of the tower is based on one of his sculpture, the Turning Torso, where he abstract the form of human movement into a stack of cubes positioned elegantly around a core. In the original sculpture, seven cubes are set around a steel support to produce a spiraling structural effect.
The Turning Torso in Malmö is a neo-futurist residential skyscraper designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, and the tallest building in Scandinavia.
Being the tallest tower of Scandinavia, the Turning Torso stands sculpturally to compose a poetic landmark with the skyline of Malmö, Sweden. The Spanish genius Santiago Calatrava infused movement to structure and carved out the spontaneously engineered artifact of white marble.
In the interior of the Western Harbor district of Malmö, the third most important city of Sweden, stretches this 190 meter high tower.
