Turning Torso

Turning Torso is a neo-futurist residential skyscraper in Sweden and the tallest building in Scandinavia. Located in Malmö at the Swedish facet of the Öresund strait, it changed into constructed and is owned by way of Swedish cooperative affiliation HSB. It is seemed as the first twisted skyscraper within the world.

The mission changed into designed by means of Spanish architect, structural engineer, sculptor and painter Santiago Calatrava and formally opened on 27 August 2005. The tower reaches a height of one hundred ninety metres with fifty four memories and 147 residences. Turning Torso is primarily based on a sculpture via Calatrava, referred to as Twisting Torso, that's a white marble piece primarily based at the shape of a twisting person. It is the first "twisting" tower. In 1999, HSB Malmo's former managing director, Johnny Orback, saw the sculpture in a brochure presenting Calatrava in connection with his contribution to the architectural competition for the Oresund Bridge. It was on this event that Orback was stimulated to build HSB Turning Torso.