The Swedish Skyscraper "Turning Torso," designed by Santiago Calatrava, has been chosen the best new skyscraper for 2005 by the editors of Emporis, a real estate data provider. The jury bestowed the ...

Santiago Calatrava’s building also features a high degree of energy and water efficiency, allowing Turning Torso residents to live and enjoy a conscious and sustainable life.

Malmö, Sweden's Turning Torso is this year's winner of the 10 Year Award from The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). The 623-foot, 57-story tower was the world's first twisting ...

With no underpinning, the shapes seem to float in space. From there, it was a short step to “Turning Torso,” in which the cubes are stacked, each cube turned slightly from the one beneath it.

Calatrava's entry into high-rise design began with an innovative 54-story-high twisting tower called Turning Torso (2005), located in Malmö, Sweden. FULL ARTICLE AT WIKIPEDIA.ORG ...

This dilemma was answered by the Turning Torso tower, a white whirlwind of a building designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava in 2004, which put Malmo back on the map.

When famed architect Santiago Calatrava designed the building known as the Turning Torso, he ushered in a new era of twisted designs. The buildings seem to rotate the traditional rectangular tower ...

Completed in 2005, "Turning Torso" sets an ominous precedent for the Spire the project was originally intended to cost 550 million Swedish crowns, and ended up costing anywhere from 850 million to ...

Sculptures inspired structures like Malmo’s Turning Torso, above. “I was half as old as the other boys, but they let me stay,” Calatrava says. “I was good, and I wouldn’t go away.” ...

And that's the sense you get from Paul Goldberger's review of the show in the New Yorker - that Calatrava is deeply aware of structure (think his Turning Torso building, think 80 South Street), if ...