Turning Torso, Malmö

Turning Torso is a 2005 neo-futurist residential skyscraper in Malmö, Sweden. It was the highest building in the Nordic area until September 2022, when Karlatornet in Gothenburg, which is currently under construction, overtook it. It was built and is owned by the Swedish cooperative organisation HSB and is located on the Swedish side of the resund strait. It is recognized as the world's first twisted skyscraper. Santiago Calatrava, a Spanish architect, structural engineer, artist, and painter, created it and was formally opened on August 27, 2005. It stands 190 meters tall, with 54 storeys, and 147 units.

Turning Torso received the Gold Emporis Skyscraper Award in 2005, as well as the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat's 10 Year Award in 2015. Turning Torso is inspired by Calatrava's Twisting Torso, a white marble sculpture in the shape of a twisting human figure. Johnny rbäck, the former managing director of HSB Malmö, spotted the sculpture in a brochure promoting Calatrava's proposal to the architectural competition for the resund Bridge in 1999. rbäck was inspired to create HSB Turning Torso on this occasion. Soon after, he traveled to Zurich to meet with Calatrava and commission him to design a residential complex based on the concept of twisted cubes.

It is a solid, immovable structure made up of nine segments of five-story pentagons that twist relative to one another as they ascend; the uppermost section is twisted 90 degrees clockwise from the bottom floor. Each level is made out of an irregular pentagonal form that rotates around a vertical core supported by an external steel structure. The lower two portions are designed to provide office space. There are 147 flats in segments three through nine.

Location: Lilla Varvsgatan 14, Malmö, Sweden