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Located on the Swedish side of the Öresund strait, HSB Turning Torso is a
skyscraper in Malmö, Sweden. It was designed by the Spanish architect Santiago
Calatrava and officially opened on 27 August, 2005. The tower reaches a height of
190 metres with 54 stories. Upon completion, it was the tallest building in
Scandinavia, the tallest residential building in the European Union and the second
tallest residential building in Europe, after the 264-metre-high Triumph-Palace in
Moscow.The 86 metre high Kronprinsen was the tallest building in Malmö before
Turning Torso.
The Torso's exoskeleton is effectively a steel truss erected on the outside of the
building with the same clockwise rotation as the tower itself. The truss consists of a
spine column at the corner of each floor plus horizontal and diagonal elements that
reach to each side of the glazed spine. Stabilisers also connect the floor slabs with
the framework.
One reason for the building of Turning Torso was to re-establish a recognizable
skyline for Malmö since the removal of the Kockums Crane in 2002, which was
located less than a kilometre 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 shipbuilding .
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