Turning Torso by
Santiago Calatrava
News 2003
(In
swedish.)
(Current
Turning Torso news.)
By Lars
Tufvesson.
Photo:
Lars Tufvesson
Discovery
Channel has started filming Turning Torso
Turning
Torso: Most expensive in the Nordic area
Turning
Torso: Preparing for the inside
Other construction
companies' view on Turning Torso
"The
most fascinating residential construction work in Europe
today"
SimCity: Now
with Turning Torso
Exclusive
shops near Turning Torso?
Turning
Torso: Safety zone will increase
Turning
Torso: First panels in place
Turning Torso:
Door fell down
Turning
Torso will become an institution
Turning
Torso may be split in two
Like they do on
the Discovery Channel
Turning
Torso popular among photographers
Special interest
group for Turning Torso
Turning Torso:
Promecon mounts the steel facade
Turning
Torso: Nice night pictures
Turning
Torso through the mirror. Foto: Lars Tufvesson. Nice?
Ugly? Give your comment!
From boligzonen.dk
November 2003
Copenhagen, the large danish capital
city close to Turning Torso and Malmö, will
get a building with a similar international service
concept as the one in Turning Torso. The house
is called Europahuset, and it is situated in the city
of Copenhagen, close to the new town library. Europahuset
is an old office building that now is rebuilt with exclusive
apartments. More information on: http://www.europahuset.dk/
From the net 2003-12-21
It's not only this site that is
tracking Turning Torso:
- You will find many Turning
Torso pictures on World
Travel Images - Malmö - Outskirts.
- Skyscraper City has a discussion
about Turning Torso on Official
Turning Torso Picture Thread. They started the
discussion by linking to pictures on this site.
(Since I have moved the pictures for another reason,
their old picture links does not work anymore.)
From the Sydsvenskan newspaper 2003-12-17
Today, Sydsvenskan has an article
about building your own Turning Torso gingerbread
biscuit house. Things to think about:
- Do not build more than about
20 floors, to avoid collapse.
- Cylinder shaped pieces can
be created by bending the piece around a circular
object before the piece has hardened.
From the master thesis "Säkerhet
i höga byggnader" by Emma Lindsten 2001, Brandteknik,
Lunds Tekniska Högskola (mixed with my own thoughts).
Turning Torso is probably
a safe building:
- Sprinklers in all rooms
- Pressure increasing pumps
- Rising pipes
- Emergency elevator
- Fire gas ventilation
- Door shutters
- Fire alarm
- Smoke detectors
- Emergency electricity
- Emergency light
- Every floor and apartment
is its own fire cell
Some layman safety questions remain
unanswered, though:
The swedish fire safety regulation
for buildings is not adapted for high buildings. The
minimum safety level is not defined for high buildings.
In cuntries with greater experience
of high buildings, the regulators often require two
escape routes. USA, Great Britain and Hong Kong (but
not Australia) require two escape routes. For high buildings,
this means two stair wells. Turning Torso only
has one stair well. Is one stair well enough, from a
safety perspective?
Another safety risk is that it
is possible to open windows in Turning Torso.
There are safety barriers making it impossible to open
the window more than 0,1 meter. The problem here is
that it is possible to throw out things, and even small
things can become deadly projectiles if they are allowed
to fall over hundred meters down. The question is, is
it safe to be on the ground, close to Turning Torso?
From HSB's celebration of Turning
Torso reaching half its final height 2003-12-07
Photo:
Lars Tufvesson
It looked bad Saturday morning:
The party tent blew away and ended up in the woods.
Despite that, when it was time to celebrate on Sunday,
there was a tent on the correct spot and no trace of
the accident.
The outdoor exhibition close to
Turning Torso reappeared, in time for the celebration.
Photo: Lars Tufvesson.
During the celebration, the vice
president of HSB made a speech. Among other things,
he mentioned that:
- The architect of Turning
Torso, Santiago Calatrava, has many highly visible
ongoing projects. He is creating a new station at
Ground Zero in New York. He is also the architect
behind the Olympia stadion in Athens.
- The number of persons interested
in an apartment in Turning Torso is now over
1000.
- The elevators to the apartments
in Turning Torso are express elevators. It
will for instance take 18 seconds to reach the 27:th
floor.
- The total space in Turning
Torso is 22 000 square meters. This is equal
to nine soccer fields.
- The concrete core of Turning
Torso will be finished in August or September
2004.
- The steel-carrying structure
will be finished in September or October 2004.
- The first piece of the aluminum
facade from Barcelona will arrive by truck in January
or February 2004. In total, there will be 132 truck
loads arriving from Barcelona.
- He finished by saying that
those buying an apartment in Turning Torso
is not buying an apartment in the normal sense.
One customer explained it this way: We are not buying
three rooms and a kitchen. We are buying living
space and a kitchen.
December
6: The storm makes the water flow upwards the water
fall.
Photo: Lars
Tufvesson.
From the Fastighetsvärlden
magazine, number 4 2003
When the apartments from the Bo01
housing exhibition entered the market, the price of
apartments in exclusive areas in Malmö rised, and
Malmö as a whole got a more exclusive image.
Even though the interest for the
apartments in the Bo01 area initially was limited, the
interest for those apartments is now very large.
The question is if the attraction
of Malmö as a place of living will reach an even
higher level, when the apartments of Turning Torso
are ready.
Malmö appears more and more
as the Paris of the north, when it comes to the fascination
for large projects. The city will get a new continental
image with the Öresund bridge, Bo01, Turning
Torso, the city tunnel and Scandinavian Tower. Turning
Torso might very well turn out to be the leading
star that the Öresund region needs to reach new
levels of attraction and establish itself as a natural
centre in the north of Europe for real.
From a walking tour 2003-11-29
Photo:
Lars Tufvesson
Turning Torso has now reached
half its final height. Turning Torso will be
190 meters high. By adding the mirror image from the
canal, it is possible to get a feeling for the real
height of the finished Turning Torso.
From a walking tour 2003-11-29
The workers are not only working
at the top of Turning Torso. A separate team
has recently started mounting the holders for the facade
at the lower floors.
The fog
almost reaches Turning Torso's currently highest
top. Photo: Lars
Tufvesson.
The fog
clears first at the top. Photo: Lars
Tufvesson.
From a supplement to Sydsvenskan
2003-11-22
Sture will service people
living in Turning Torso, to allow them to live
the international lifestyle that they according to HSB
has chosen to live. The concierge concept is common
in towns such as London and New York.
Sture is a person representing
the ultimate kindness and the greatest possible service.
Sture is not hired yet, but the name is taken
from a legendary receptionist at the Savoy Hotel in
Malmö.
In the entrance for those living
in Turning Torso, it is possible to chat a little
before taking the elevator to the apartment. It is also
possible to sit down and have a cup of coffee, and read
a newspaper.
The service is there to give those
living in Turning Torso a more pleasant life.
A life with less stress and a greater possibility for
a comfortable spare time. Sture has told the
cab drivers how service at Turning Torso is done.
Sture has a small organization helping him. Together,
they stand for the service in the house, and they make
the building come alive.
From a supplement to Sydsvenskan
2003-11-22
Those living in Turning Torso
have access to many common rooms:
- Friends can use one of the
three overnight apartments.
- There is a gym, sauna and
jacuzzi at the 43:d floor.
- Each apartment has its own
space in the wine cellar. Close to the wine cellar,
there is a cosy little room for tasting wine.
- On the 7:th floor, there
is a room for celebrations. The room can handle
50 guests for dinner.
- On the 49:th floor, there
is an extra living room with room for up to 20 people.
From a supplement to Sydsvenskan
2003-11-22
Stefan Bergkvist decorates the
Turning Torso apartments: "Think about decorating
apartments in the Statue of Liberty. It's the same kind
of challenge to decorate apartments in a sculpture like
Turning Torso."
We are striving for calm interiors,
because all facade walls are leaning. We have tried
to create a unique Turning Torso standard. The
kitchens are specially designed for Turning Torso.
Every detail has been chosen with care. The sum of all
parts is sometimes greater than the whole.
When the project started, the
architects thought it was mostly the large apartments
that would be in demand. Now, we know that also smaller
apartments are very popular.
From a supplement to Sydsvenskan
2003-11-22
Morning
clouds.
Photo: Lars Tufvesson
Turning Torso will be 190
meters high. That makes Turning Torso Sweden's
highest building.
HSB also says that Turning
Torso will be Europe's highest residential building.
That is not completely true. Skyscraper experts usually
categorize a skyscraper as for residential use if 90%
of the surface in the house is for residential use.
(See for instance skyscrapers.com
.) Turning Torso has reserved two out of nine
cubes for commercial use. This means that Turning
Torso can not be classified as for residential use,
according to this definition.
According to The
European high-rise site, Turning Torso will
be Europe's 19:th highest building. Higher buildings
can in Europe only be found in Frankfurt, Birmingham,
Moscow, London, Warsaw, Paris and Wienna.
From a supplement to Sydsvenskan
2003-11-22
The construction of Turning
Torso costs 250 - 300 000 SEK a day to run.
The local manager Bengt Mattson
has never experienced a project with such an architecture.
The use of folding rules is out of the question, because
there are very few straight angles.
High buildings are usually done
in steel, but the twisting shape of Turning Torso
makes it easier to build in concrete. The complete project
is technically advanced, and it is on the verge of what
is feasible to do.
The deputy local manager Bengt
Hedin compares Turning Torso with the Sydney
opera house.
From a supplement to Sydsvenskan
2003-11-22
The work tasks for the construction
workers varies with time: Form placement, casting, de-forming
and lifting of the form.
Turning Torso is in average
growing with one new floor each 10:th or 11:th day.
The bottom floor in each cube takes 16 days. The top
floor in each cube takes twelve days, and the four floors
in-between takes nine days each. At the moment, 65 persons
is working with Turning Torso, in the two working
teams.
For every floor that is built,
"fire water" follows. The fire safety becomes
especially important when the facade is going to be
mounted.
The facade, currently under test
in Barcelona, will begin to appear on the building in
the beginning of 2004.
In May 2004, the frame completion
will begin. This means painting and a lot of things
that is going into the building: Kitchens, appliances,
floors, doors...
During summer 2004, the number
of people working with Turning Torso will reach
its peak. Then, there will be up to 175 people working
with the building every day.
From a supplement to Sydsvenskan
2003-11-22
Iilmar Reepalu about Turning
Torso: "This is probably the most daring project
ever in Malmö. And sure, it is better to have Calatrava's
daring high-rise than the world's largest crane as a
target."
Ilmar continues: "It's visible,
stands out, and is beautiful." The building in
itself will be a great attraction. Not only as a world-unique
residential building, but also as a destination and
an outstanding artwork.
From Kvällsposten 2003-11-18
There will be a big celebration
for everyone on December 7. The skeleton for the 27:th
floor will be ready then, and it is time to celebrate
that the building has come half-way to its final height
of 54 floors.
There will be a competition, food
and drink. Johnny Örbäck (HSB's managing director)
will hold a speech, and personnel from Turning Torso
will be available to answer questions.
Kvällsposten says that Turning
Torso is Malmö's highest building. I would
add that that depends on how you are counting:
- It depends on what you count
as buildings. The St Petri church in Malmö
is 105 meters high, and the TV tower at Jägersro,
also in Malmö, is 108 meters high. Turning
Torso's 27:th floor is about 90 meters above
the ground.
- Turning Torso is not
a finished building. If we count all non-finished
but proposed buildings in Malmö, then Scandinavian
Tower with its 274 meters is Malmö's largest
building.
- Turning Torso in its
current form can more be seen as a constructional
work of art than a building, and should be compared
with other large man-made constructions in Malmö.
Malmö's highest construction is the Öresund
bridge, that has a highest height of 204 meters.
From Kvällsposten 18/11 2003-11-18
and a supplement to Sydsvenskan 2003-11-22
Two types of Turning Torso
apartment buyers have emerged:
- The older couple with no
kids at home any longer. They have sold their house,
they want full service, they do not fancy garden
work, and they want to live close to the city with
all the restaurants.
- Then we have people born
in the 60ies and 70ies. Over half of the applications
come from this group
These groups are attracted by
Turning Torso for many different reasons:
- The view.
- The quality of the interior.
- The safety and the reception.
- The architecture and form
of the building.
82% of the applications are from
men.
From FSDome.com
2003-11-15
I have an announcement to make,
for people fond of both flight simulators and Västra
Hamnen: It is possible to download an add-on to the
Microsoft Flight Simulator, that makes it possible to
fly around Turning Torso.
From Sydsvenskan 2003-11-13
The workers building Turning
Torso are heading for a severe winter. The wind
makes it colder than the thermometer shows. Not long
ago, it was blowing so much up there that it was equal
to a temperature of minus 20 degrees.
From Sydsvenskan 2003-11-13
HSB Sundsfastigheter have borrowed
100 million SEK to be able to pay for the ongoing construction
of Turning Torso. They have been promised an
additional loan on 340 million SEK. They have to find
financing for an additional 500 to 600 million SEK,
to be able to finish the construction of Turning
Torso.
There are 900 applications for
an apartment in Turning Torso. HSB wants everyone
writing a contract to pay a 10% advance. To be able
to do this, they are required to get a bank guarantee
for 75,6 million SEK, to not risk any of the money paid
in advance.
The process of writing contracts
can start, as soon as the bank guarantee is in place.
HSB thinks that with a number of contracts in place,
it will be easy to find financing for the rest of the
money needed to finish the construction of Turning
Torso.
The managing director of "Sydsvenska
Industri och Handelskammaren" Stephan Müchler
thinks that there are enough companies attracted to
the Öresund region to create a demand for the exclusive
apartments in Turning Torso.
Bought
the site for 26 million SEK
From Sydsvenskan 2003-11-05 and
2003-11-06
Expensive
site. High building. Dense clouds. Photo: Lars Tufvesson.
HSB has earlier paid a rent for
the site-leasehold right where Turning Torso
is rising. Now, they have bought the site, that is 2
835 square meters large. They bought it for 26 million
SEK. This means that they pay over 9 000 SEK per square
meter.
Turning Torso:
46:th in the world
From skyscrapers.com
2003-10-30
If Turning Torso was ready
today, and if Turning Torso could be counted
as a residential building, then Turning Torso
would have shared the 46:th place on the list of the
world's highest residential buldings.
The world's largest residential
building is situated in Dubai, and has a height of 269
meters. Residential buildings higher than Turning
Torso can only be found in Dubai, Seoul, New
York City, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Sydney, Manila, Chicago
and Mexico City.
To be counted as a residential
building, 90% of the total area must be assigned for
residential use. That makes it impossible to really
count Turning Torso as a residential building,
with its 12 floors for commercial use at the bottom.
From a walk in the area 2003-10-25
The outdoor exhibition about Turning
Torso has been removed. They need the space for
building Turning Torso.
The first piece of the facade
in place
From a walking tour 2003-10-25
The first piece of the facade
has been put in place. The white stick made of aluminum
is not very large, but it will soon grow and surround
Turning Torso.
From skyscraperpage.com
2003-10-11
The height of Turning Torso
will be 190 meters. There is no higher building in Sweden
or Denmark.
Turning Torso stands out,
also from an international perspective. But in such
a perspective, it's mostly the unusual form that grabs
the attention:
Från skyscraperpage.com
11/10 2003
When the skyscraper enthusiasts
discuss Turning Torso, you get the impression
that Malmö is going to get a world-class attraction.
They are probably right.
- Västra hamnen in Malmö
is very well worth a visit. It is not only the Turning
Torso that is worth watching, it is a lot of
interesting projects going on out there because
they are rebuilding the whole area. And it is a
beautiful scenery, with the water so close and a
beach not far away, and also the Öresund bridge
in the background. Excellent scenery.
- I just can't wait until this
amazing tower is complete! It will truly be one
of the most fantastic buildings in the world.
- What an unusual building
it is
- This building is going to
be awesome.
- This turning torso will be
europes finest skyscraper!
- The Torso!!! wow looks great!!!
those cranes with the building looks very nice...
will become one of my favourites in the world.
- i want something like that
in Chicago
- I saw this design many years
ago in a tv show on engineering of skyscrapers.
It was an engineering exercise - not a proposal.
It was just a matter of time before an architect
implemented the idea.
- Awesome, It's a very bizzare
building, but awesome nonetheless.
- Wow, this project is simply
amazing!!
From Sydsvenskan 2003-10-03
Photo:
Lars Tufvesson
An international crusing missile?
No, it's yet another piece in the big Turning Torso
puzzle.
Any day now, the preparation for
mounting the facade on Turning Torso begins.
The first pieces has arrived from Spain, where they
are manufactured.
Turning
Torso: The new city target
From a tour with the bicycle 2003-09-14
Photo:
Lars Tufvesson
Turning Torso is now getting
high enough to be used as the new orientation target
in the city. This must be celebrated with a Turning
Torso picture special! (The texts are in swedish,
but the pictures can be enjoyed anyway.)
From Skånskan (mixed with
my own reflections) 2003-09-11
The working pace at the moment
is one new floor each 9:th day. The bottom floor in
each cube takes longer time. When the construction started,
they hoped each floor would take a week. This means
that they are building approx. 35% slower than they
hoped for.
The price for an apartment is
higher on the top than on the bottom. On average, the
price is 53 000 SEK per square meter. Earlier, they
have been talking about prices around 44 000 SEK per
square meter. That's an increase with 20%.
From Skånskan 2003-09-11
HSB has got 700 applications for
the apartments in Turning Torso.
- 80% of the applications are
coming from persons living in Sweden. The largest
part of these are living in the western part of
Skåne.
- Among the applications from
abroad, we find many persons from Copenhagen.
- 40% of the applications are
from persons born in the 60ies.
So far, 30-40 people has signed
up for a specific apartment. One person has signed a
contract.
The work with hiring out the commercial
space at the 12 bottom floors has not yet begun.
From Sydsvenskan 2003-09-06
The first apartment in Turning
Torso is now sold. It was a Swede living abroad
that bought 64 square meters. Pia Sandin, HSB's sales
manager for Turning Torso, is counting on selling
additional apartments this fall. There are 700 applications
and they are getting 2-3 new applications each day.
HSB thinks that they will have sold all 152 apartments
in Turning Torso in the beginning of 2005, when
it is time to move in.
From Sydsvenskan 2003-08-15
700 applications have arrived
for the 152 apartments in Turning Torso. It's
mostly from Danes, but there are also applications from
London, Argentina, Mexico and USA.
From www.turningtorso.com 2003-06-24
Samark Arkitektur&Design AB
have gotten the task to decorate the interiors of Turning
Torso. They have chosen a tight and simple line.
A scandinavian style that always feels modern.
The newly hired sales and marketing
manager Pia Sandin previously worked at Berkeley Homes
in London, where she worked with exclusive residential
projects. "It's about selling a living where the
quality of living and service is put in the centre."
The two lowest cubes will be for
commercial use. Residents will occupy the other cubes,
all the way up to the 54:th floor.
In the cellar, all inhabitants
have access to their own space for storing wine.
The reception will be manned around
the clock. The reception can help with things like booking
tickets, laundry, cleaning, renting out the apartment,
order food from a restaurant, let the handyman in, take
the car to the annual check...
On the first floor, there are
8 office modules that the residents can hire.
On the 7:th floor, there will
be a room for celebrations, that can handle 50 sitting
guests. The room can be split into two conference rooms,
if needed.
There are also two rooms with
great views for the residents, at the 43:th and 49:th
floor. The 43:th floor also has overnight apartments
for guests, and a gym with a jacuzzi.
From Sydnytt and Rapport 2003-06-22
Earlier, the cost of Turning
Torso has been calculated to 900 million SEK. Now,
the price has increased to 1 050 million SEK. Half of
the money is not yet financed. The managing director
of HSB, Johnny Örbäck, is not worried.
From Sydsvenskan 2003-06-03 and
2003-06-19
The electricity union has given
notice of a strike, that will hit Turning Torso
from June 19:th. Since there are only two electricians
working on Turning Torso today, the effects of
the strike will not be very large.
At the moment, 35 persons are
working at the same time on Turning Torso. Two
of them are electricians, and they work normal working
hours. There are 20 concrete workers and concrete reinforcers
working in shift. The rest of the personnel works with
installing ventilation in the cellar, with normal working
hours.
The electricity union motivates
the choice of Turning Torso as a target for the
strike with: "Turning Torso is a large bragging
construction site in Skåne." The electricians
are striking against the pressured building schedules,
that leads to bad health.
The 14:th floor will be created
2003-06-22. If the strike continues after that, then
it will hit the construction of Turning Torso
a bit harder.
From Metro 2003-05-21
There might not be enough wealthy
persons in Skåne to fill Turning Torso.
Turning Torso will therefore be advertised to
Swedes living abroad in Monaco, and to larger companies
from the Middle East that has a base here, says Pia
Sandin, sales manager for Turning Torso.
Already today, we get five or
six calls each day with questions about living in Turning
Torso, despite no advertising. The writing of contracts
for individual apartments starts in a couple of months.
In spring 2005, it is time to move in.
The plan is that the concrete
frame will reach the top at 190 meters in August 2004.
From www.skyscrapers.com
2003-05-13
Turning Torso will reach
a height of 190 meters. That is the height of Kronprinsen
- doubled. The table of the currently highest buildings
in Malmö looks like this according to skyscrapers.com:
Side note from Lars: The smoke stack on Heleneholmsverket
in Malmö has a height of 130 meters. The Öresund
bridge has a height of 204 meters.
From Sydsvenskan 2003-05-02
Between 40 and 50 persons have
already announced their interest in one of the 152 apartments
in Turning Torso. The construction workers have
now reached the 12:th floor out of 54.
From Sydsvenskan 2003-04-12
NCC and the union has reached
an agreement about the salaries for the construction
workers at Turning Torso. At the moment, they
are negotiating the security arrangements.
From Sydsvenskan 25/3 2003-03-25
There are 50 people working on
Turning Torso now. The pace is a little bit slower
than expected. The goal is one floor each week. Initially,
there were reports that one floor took nine days. Now,
they talk about eleven days. The safety is important.
At the moment, they are discussing if the road nearby
should be closed during the construction, because there
is a risk that things might fall down.
From a note at Studeum 2003-02-07
The construction of Turning
Torso is now progressing faster, with two working
teams. The work starts at 07:00, and ends at 19:00 every
day except Saturdays, when the work end at 17:00 instead.
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