Turning Torso is a neo-futurist tower in Malmo, Sweden, designed by the architect Santiago Calatrava and officially opened on August 27, 2005, combining commercial office space in its lower floors with rental apartments above. The 54-story tower rises about 190 meters and is built as nine stacked segments of five stories each, shaped like pentagons, that twist progressively as the building rises so that the topmost segment is rotated a full 90 degrees relative to the ground floor. It was the tallest building in the Nordic countries until Karlatornet surpassed it in September 2022, and it won the Gold Emporis Skyscraper Award in 2005 and the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat's 10 Year Award in 2015.
Facts
Building TypeMixed-use tower with commercial office and rental apartments 1 LocationLilla Varvsgatan 14, 211 15 Malmo, Sweden 1 Completed Year Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
In Style
Source Turning Torso, Wikipedia
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Sweden, located there.
Sources
1. Turning Torso, Wikipedia
Infobox, type
Commercial office Rental apartments
Infobox, completed
Completed 27 August 2005
Infobox, location
Lilla Varvsgatan 14, 211 15 Malmö, Sweden
Infobox, height roof
Height Roof 190 m (623 ft)
Entity description and the lead of the Wikipedia article
Turning Torso is a neo-futurist tower in Malmo, Sweden, designed by the architect Santiago Calatrava and officially opened on August 27, 2005, combining commercial office space in its lower floors with rental apartments above. The 54-story tower rises about 190 meters and is built as nine stacked segments of five stories each, shaped like pentagons, that twist progressively as the building rises so that the topmost segment is rotated a full 90 degrees relative to the ground floor. It was the tallest building in the Nordic countries until Karlatornet surpassed it in September 2022, and it won the Gold Emporis Skyscraper Award in 2005 and the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat's 10 Year Award in 2015.
- In Style: Neo-Futurism, infobox architectural_style field: Neo-futurism
View the Source2. Wikidata: Turning Torso
- Wikidata Q206435, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q206435, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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