Turning Torso, Malmö, Sweden

Turning Torso offers energy-efficient units and detoxified construction.
HSB Turning Torso
190 metres/623 feet
57 stories
Completed: 2005
tallest building of Sweden and Scandinavia




Seattle design and development professionals,
touring Denmark and Sweden in March,
will get a first hand look at the Turning Torso
building by renowned architect Santiago Calatrava.



Turning Torso

This sustainable mixed office and residential 54-floor skyscraper,

designed by Santiago Calatrava, completed in 2005.

Building features include: energy-efficient design; individual monitoring of heat,

and hot and cold water use; 100 percent renewable energy; detoxified construction;

and a recycling system that will enable organic waste to be transported in separate

pipes and "digested" to become biogas.

All packaging, newspapers, electronic and hazardous waste will be separated and recycled.

The remaining waste that cannot be recycled will be converted to energy in Malmo's new

waste incinerator and heat plant. Biogas will be used to power the city's buses.

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Turning Torso facts

- Architect: Santiago Calatrava, architect, sculptor, engineer noted for the Olympic

Stadium in Athens and the planned subway station at Ground Zero in New York.
- Ground breaking: Valentine's Day, February 14, 2001.
- Interior: Samark Arkitektur & Design AB.
- Height: 190 meters – 54 stories – a 38-second elevator ride to the top, but there's also a stairway for the hearty.
- Rank: Tallest residential building in Scandinavia, next tallest in Europe.
- Area: 400 square meters per floor.
- Windows: 2,500 using 5,500 square meters of glass.
- Concrete: 25,000 cubic meters used in construction.
- Sway: Virtually none. In a storm with a wind force of up to 44 meters per second, a maximum of 30 centimeters at the top.
- Office space: Rentals, half or all of space on floors 2-12 (cubes one and two).
- Living space: 147 apartments, 45-190 square meters, in 33 designs.
- Average rental costs: Residential: SEK 1,850 per square meter per year (about USD 225);

office: SEK 2,400 per square meter per year (about USD 290).

Related links

www.turningtorso.com - Turning Torso
www.malmo.se - City of Malmö
www.oresundscienceregion.org - Öresund Region
www.visitoresund.info - Visit Öresund Region
www.metmuseum.org - Special exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York