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HSB Turning Torso is a skyscraper in Malmö, Sweden on the Swedish side of the Oresund strait. It was designed by Santiago Calatrava and officially opened on 27 August 2005. Upon completion, it was the tallest building in Scandinavia, and Europe's second highest apartment building, after the 264-metre-high Triumph-Palace in Moscow. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (636x2048, 227 KB) The Turning Torso in Malmö, 2005/08/15. ...
View over Malmö IPA: /málmø:/ is the third largest city in Sweden, situated in the southernmost province of Skåne, near Copenhagen, Denmark. ...
Calatrava is known for his organically inspired designs, such as LUmbracle at his Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències in Valencia. ...
Malmö ( listen?) is the third largest municipality in Sweden. ...
HSB is: another name for HSV color space a beer made by George Gale and Co. ...
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August 27 is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (240th in leap years), with 126 days remaining. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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View over Malmö IPA: /málmø:/ is the third largest city in Sweden, situated in the southernmost province of Skåne, near Copenhagen, Denmark. ...
Denmark (red) / south Sweden (yellow), connected with the Oresund Bridge. ...
Calatrava is known for his organically inspired designs, such as LUmbracle at his Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències in Valencia. ...
August 27 is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (240th in leap years), with 126 days remaining. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Building is either the act of creating an object assembled from more than one element, or the object itself; see also construction. ...
Scandinavia is a region in Northern Europe named after the Scandinavian Peninsula. ...
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An apartment building, block of flats or tenement is a multi-unit dwelling made up of several (generally four or more) apartments (US) or flats (UK). ...
Triumph palace and the typical Soviet block of flats Triumph-Palace, view from Peschanaya Street Triumph-Palace is the name of an apartment building in Moscow. ...
Government Russia District Subdivision Russia Central Federal District Federal City Mayor Yuri Luzhkov Geographical characteristics Area - City 1,081 km² Population - City (2005) - Density 10,415,400 8537. ...
The tower reaches a height of 190 metres (623 feet) with 54 stories. The design is based on a sculpture by Santiago Calatrava called Twisting Torso. The tower's design 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 through nine will house 149 luxury apartments. The metre, or meter, is a measure of length, approximately equal to 3. ...
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Calatrava is known for his organically inspired designs, such as LUmbracle at his Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències in Valencia. ...
An office is a room or other area in which people work, but may also denote a position within an organisation with specific duties attached to it (see officer, office-holder, official); the latter is in fact an earlier usage, office as place originally referring to the location of one...
An apartment (or flat) is a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building. ...
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. Venus de Milo, front. ...
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Johnny Örbäck is a former head of the Malmö, Sweden division of the company HSB, who was the driving force behind the construction of Scandinavias tallest structure Turning Torso designed by Santiago Calatrava. ...
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the job of having the ultimate executive responsibility or authority within an organization or corporation. ...
HSB used to stand for Hyresgästernas sparkasse- och byggnadsförening, which translated would mean something like The savings and construction assossiation of the tennants. It was from the start a cooperative assisiation for housing. ...
One reason for the building of Turning Torso was to reestablish a recognizable skyline for Malmö since the removal of Kockumskranen ("The Kockum Crane") in 2002, which was located less than a kilometer 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 somewhat symbolized the city's blue collar roots. Turning Torso can be seen as a monument of a new, more internationalized Malmö. Kockumskranen (Kockums crane) was a 138 metre high crane, formerly of the Swedish shipyard Kockums in Malmö. It was built in 1973/1974 and capable of lifting 1500 tons but never used much because of the Swedish shipyard crisis of the late 1970s and 1980s. ...
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Recognition
Turning Torso won the 2005 Emporis Skyscraper Award by the largest margin in the award's history, winning out over Q1 Tower in Gold Coast City, Australia and Montevideo in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The Emporis Skyscraper Award is awarded annually by Emporis to the Best new skyscraper for design and functionality. The winner must have been completed during the previous year, and must be at least 100 meters in height. ...
Q1 (meaning Queensland Number One) is the worlds tallest residential tower, when measured to its pinnacle (the top of its spire, 323m), and the tallest skyscraper in the Southern Hemisphere. ...
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Rotterdam Location Flag Country The Netherlands Province South Holland Population 604,819 (2005) Coordinates 51° 55 N.; 4° 30 E. Website www. ...
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. MIPIM is a market for international property trade. ...
Cannes (Canas in Provençal) (pronounced ) is a city and commune in southern France, located on the Riviera, in the Alpes-Maritimes département. ...
One West India Quay 1 West India Quay is a skyscraper in the Docklands area of London. ...
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The construction of Turning Torso was featured in an episode of the Discovery Channel's series Extreme Engineering. Discovery Channel is a property of Discovery Communications primarily packaged as a network entertainment brand distributed in virtually every pay-television market in the world. ...
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Criticism The Turning Torso has been the subject of both controversy and criticism. Many believe that residences offered are too expensive and that it doesn't have a valid place on the market.
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