Whilst researching the Curvy Monroe building, we came across this innovatively wacky building – it is the HSB ‘Turning Torso’ in Malmö, Sweden. Spanish architect, Santiago Calatrava based the tower’s design on a white marble sculpture of a ‘twisting’ human being.
It is a 53 storey building that spans about 190 metres (623 feet).
The building is composed of nine distinct fragments of five-storey pentagons that each twist above each other in a clockwise direction with the topmost segment acutely twisted by ninety degrees in relation to the ground floor fragments. All pentagonal floors are bound by a vertical core, that is supported by an exterior steel frame. The first ten floors on the two bottom segments are office space, whilst the top 43 floors in the last seven segments consists of 149 luxury apartments.
Upon its completion in 2005, 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.
Turning Torso was the winning design of the 2005 MIPIM award in Cannes, France for Best International Residential Building, beating the 1 West India Quay in London, UK, and Espirito Santo Plaza in Miami, USA.
Official website: www.turningtorso.com
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