News about Turning
Torso by Santiago Calatrava
(In
swedish.)
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Only for like-minded people
From Metro 2004-12-01 and Sydsvenskan
2004-11-30
- Before the rents for the
apartments in Turning Torso was announced, 1300
people had expressed an interest in rening an apartment.
- Now, the rents for the 147
apartments are known, and 200 people remains that
wants to sign a rental contract.
- Each day, three or four new
applicants for a rental apartment turn up.
HSB Malmö now raises the
bar for new potential residents. In addition to a stable
economy and good references, you also need to fit in
with people that have already decided to move in. Those
living in Turning Torso should want to get to know their
neighbors. HSB Malmö wants in this way to make
sure that those that do move in looks at their living
as a long-term living.
HSB Malmö signs contract
with PR agency
From Sydsvenskan 2004-11-30
The interest for how the construction
of Turning Torso proceeds is large. HSB Malmö do
not have time for all journalists that regularly calls.
Because of this, HSB Malmö has signed a contract
with the PR agency CGI Malmö AB to get some relief
with the media contacts.
First but not last
From Sydsvenskan 2004-11-19
The architect of Turning Torso,
Santiago Calatrava, was born in Valencia in Spain. There,
they have several public buildings drawn by Calatrava.
Now, the city of Valencia wants to build four residential
skyscrapers similar to Turning Torso. The tallest skyscraper
would be 280 meters high. Valencia is looking for private
money that is willing to build the skyscrapers.
The project leader for the construction
of Turning Torso, Ingvar Nohlin, thinks that it will
be easier to make a profit from the construction in
Valencia. Turning Torso is built with a very narrow
body. This means that the non-usable area on each floor
is too large as compared to the usable area. In Valencia,
they will probably build with larger volumes.
The plans for a residential tower
by Calatrava in New York continues. HSB Malmö's
CEO Greg Dingizian has also been told that there is
an interest for something similar in Asia.
No public space at the top
From Sydsvenskan 2004-11-19
HSB Malmö has plans for the
two top floors in Turning Torso, that they do not yet
want to tell us. It will not be a public space for looking
at the view.
A viewing platform for the public
would require special security measures. Greg Dingizian,
CEO of HSB Malmö, do not think that residents living
in Turning Torso want the elevators occupied by tourists
going up and down in the house.
Office space rented out
From Sydsvenskan
2004-11-17
HSB Malmö has
signed a contract with the first Turning Torso office
space renter. Håkal Sköld Fastighetsbyrå,
a real estate broker, rents 200 square meters on floor
12.
Not the highest residential building
in North Europe
From www.turningtorso.com
2004-11-14
HSB Malmö claims at their
web site that Turning Torso is North Europes highest
residential building. Is this a correct claim?
Let us ignore that Turning Torso
is not a residential building accoding to the guidelines
from skyscrapers.com
due to ten floors of office space.
Let us also ignore that Turning
Torso is not completed yet. This means that we must
compare Turning Torso with all almost completed residential
buildings in North Europe.
In Moscow, they are constructing
what will be Europes tallest residential building: Triumph-Palace
is just as Turning Torso almost finished, and has a
height of 264 meters.
Then we have the question: Does
Moscow belong to North Europe?
Moscow is in Russia, that belongs
to Europe. Moscow is further north than Malmö.
If Malmö is in North Europe, then Moscow is in
North Europe.
Conclusions:
- Turning Torso is not the
tallest residential building in North Europe.
- Triumph-Palace is North Europe's
tallest residential building.
Souvenirs
From Sydsvenskan 2004-11-14
Local newspaper Sydsvenskan today
discusses the subject of Turning Torso souvenirs.
"As a spectacular symbol
for Malmö, Turning Torso beats all previous symbols
by far, maybe with an exception for Zlatan Ibrahimovic"
writes Mikael Bergstrand. He continues: "Among
the memories from Malmö a visitor brings home,
there will certainly be the picture of the twisted house."
We now have some emerging Turning
Torso souvenirs:
- T-shirts with Turning Torso
prints
- The Malmö Monopoly-based
game, with a Turning Torso marker in metal
- Sydsvenskan's build your
own Turning Torso description:
Bygg
din egen Torsomodell!
HSB Malmö has registered
the Turning Torso trademark, and they are in the process
of creating an official souvenir collection. We can
expect to see a scaled down Turning Torso in steel or
glass. There will also be clothes and key chain rings.
No restaurant at the top
From Metro 2004-11-12
HSB Malmö do not yet want
to tell us what the two top floors (53 and 54) will
be used for. HSB Malmö says that it will not be
a restaurant, and it will not be a sky bar.
2004-10-07:
IntenTorso (The Intentia house + Turning Torso).
Photo: Michel Schaumburg. Nice?
Ugly? Comment!
More
pictures by the same photographer.
Large
pictures by the same photographer.
Sweden's most expensive rents
From Metro 2004-11-12
The rent for the apartments in
Turning Torso will probably be Sweden's most expensive.
The mean square meter price in the most expensive new
buildings that have been constructed in Sweden recently
looks like this:
- 1850 SEK per year: Turning
Torso
- Above 1800 SEK per year:
MKB's most expensive house in the Bo01-area: Kajplats
01
- 1535 SEK per year: Hammarby
Sjöstad in Stockholm
- 1465 SEK per year: Liljeholmen
in Stockholm
- 1450 SEK per year: Eriksberg
in Göteborg
- 1380 SEK per year: City in
Göteborg
- 1200 SEK per year: Hässelby
in Stockholm
HSB Malmö's CEO Greg Dingizian
thinks that they could have taken out 20% higher rents
for Turning Torso than what they now try to do.
24 hours after the rents were
presented, 12 out of 1200 persons (1%) came back to
HSB Malmö and said that they still want to live
in Turning Torso.
When it comes to the ten floors
at the bottom in Turning Torso, HSB Malmö will
occupy the five lowest floors. The other five floors
are not yet hired out.
2004-10-06:
Double Torso. Photo: Michel Schaumburg.
Nice?
Ugly? Comment!
More
pictures by the same photographer.
Large
pictures by the same photographer.
Water below Turning Torso
From Sydsvenskan 2004-11-11 and
2004-11-03
At the end of next year, a pond
will be constructed around Turning Torso, both to please
the eye and for security reasons. Greg Dingizian (CEO
of HSB Malmö) said it like this: "If you drop
a small item from a high height, it can be dangerous".
Lars comments: The city of Malmö should have thought
of that before placing Turning Torso in the middle of
a road crossing.
It takes eight seconds for a coin
to fall from the top of Turning Torso to the ground.
This includes the effect of the calculated air resistance.
Without air resistance, the drop would have taken 6,22
seconds.
The cost of living in Turning
Torso
From Metro, Sydsvenskan and www.turningtorso.com
2004-11-11
The rent for an apartment in Turning
Torso will be between 7 094 and 26 151 SEK per month.
- One room and a kitchen at
the 15:th floor (45 square meters): 7 094 SEK.
- Two rooms and a kitchen at
the 27:th floor (78 square meters): 12 551 SEK.
- Three rooms and a kitchen
at the 24:th floor (92 square meters): 13 964 SEK.
- Three rooms and a kitchen
at the 45:th floor (97 square meters): 16 596 SEK.
- Four rooms and a kitchen
at the 36:th floor (161 square meters): 22 118 SEK.
- Five rooms and a kitchen
at the 51:th floor (190 square meters): 26 151 SEK.
The rent has been decided based
on the area occupied by the apartment, the floor level
and the view. The following things are included in the
rent:
- 24 hour reception desk
- access to the floor for celebrations
and larger dinners.
- access to a jacuzzi
- access to a wine cellar
The 1200 people that has shown
an interest in renting an apartment in Turning Torso
now have to decide if they really want to move in or
not. If they want to move in, they should pick five
apartments they are interested in. The apartments will
be assigned to individual applicants in January. The
first residents can move in in the last months of 2005.
The first residents will move in just before Turning
Torso is completely finished. The rent will be lower
the first few months.
The mean square meter price is
1850 SEK per year. This is high, but at the same time
at the same level as the rent in many other newly produced
apartments in Sweden. The square meter price varies
between 1650 and 2053 SEK per year. With this, the rents
will be in the upper end of the scale that previously
was promised (1200-2000 SEK per year).
Garage construction back on track
From Sydsvenskan 2004-11-11
People living in European Village
close to Turning Torso stopped the construction of the
Turning Torso garage, because the garage was larger
than the original plans. To avoid a delay in the construction
of the garage (the garage is needed when people move
in to Turning Torso at the end of 2005), HSB Malmö
has made a secret agreement with the three households
that stopped the construction of the Turning Torso garage.
- Those households no longer
demands that the garage construction must be stopped.
- There has been made some
changes in the plans for the garage, according to
the wishes of those households.
Build your own Turning Torso
From Sydsvenskan 2004-11-03
The local newspaper Sydsvenskan
allocated four pages for Turning Torso this Wednesday.
Two of the four pages was a description for how you
can construct your own Turning Torso-model using paper
and glue. If you feel like building your own Turning
Torso, go ahead to Bygg
din egen Torsomodell!
Here is how the project leader
presents Turning Torso
From a tour on the web 2004-11-09
Turning
Torso by night. Photo: Lars Tufvesson. Nice?
Ugly? Comment!
Ingvar Nohlin is the project leader
for the construction of Turning Torso. If you have ever
wondered how Ingvar presents Turning Torso and Västra
Hamnen, here is a simple way of finding out: Click on
the link below!
- The
project leader's Turning Torso-presentation
(Large pdf-file - do not click if you are surfing
at a slow speed.)
Turning Torso: 20% from Denmark
From Sydsvenskan 2004-10-27
Out of the 1000 people that have
shown an interest for one of the 147 rental apartments
in Turning Torso, 200 people are from Denmark. The number
of applicants from Denmark has increased now when the
tower is easier to see from Denmark.
The average person interested
in an apartment in Turning Torso is a man born either
in the 1940's or in the 1960's. He is living in a rental
apartment today, and has no kids at home. 30% of all
applicants are born in the 1940's. Another 30% of the
applicants are born in the 1960's.
The day of moving in has been
moved forward once more. Now, HSB Malmö is talking
about November 2005 as a preliminary date for moving
in.
Impresses our neighbors
From Skyscrapercity
2004-10-21
A person from Finland found the
pictures from the top of Turning Torso. He said the
following:
- Damn that tower looks good.
So tall and the views are nothing short of amazing
really. Feels dizzy to look at those photos taken
straight down This surely calls for a celebration!
Congrats!
A person from Denmark went to
Västra Hamnen to look at Turning Torso. He said
the following:
- I just went over to Malmö
to check out the TT in real life yesterday, and
I must say I was really impressed. It was much higher
and more impressive than I had expected, and the
shape of the tower was like nothing I had ever seen
before. Definitely the coolest building in the Øresund
region.
Hopefully it will inspire us Danes
to try to make something that can beat it, but I
guess not since we have some strange idea that the
medieval towers must remain the highest buildings
of Copenhagen forever.
NCC about Turning Torso
The construction
company NCC is going to build office space in Västra
Hamnen. In an interview, an NCC representative had the
following to say about Turning Torso:
Turning Torso is
a land mark that definitely will put Malmö on the
map. Turning Torso is a building that already can be
seen from the continent (Copenhagen). A city needs something
to be associated with. I think Turning Torso is good
for Malmö. Besides, I think that it is good that
we have some half-crazy people with visions.
The Turning Torso advertising
tower
From an advert in
local newspaper Sydsvenskan around 2004-10-19
HSB Malmö has
begun the marketing campaign to find companies that
want to rent the office space in the two lower cubes
of Turning Torso. The title of the ad is "When
the office becomes an ad and the rent a part of the
marketing cost".
Garage construction stopped
From Sydsvenskan
2004-10-21
The local authorities
have stopped the construction of the garage to the north
of Turning Torso, because the garage is planned to cover
two grounds and also occupy the six meter wide area
between the two grounds.
HSB Malmö is
discussing about how to proceed. The alternatives are:
Build two
parking houses, one on each ground.
Change
the facade according to the wish of the neighbours.
Challenge
the local authorities in a higher court instance.
2004-10-12:
Sun rise. Photo: Lars Tufvesson. Nice?
Ugly? Comment!
More than one unique concrete
tower in Västra Hamnen
From the book "I Per-Albinlinjens
fotspår (2): Sydvästra Skåne"
by Lief Högberg
The green and pointy tower is
the old air shelter at the Kockums shipyard. Photo:
Lars Tufvesson.
Turning Torso is not the only
unique concrete tower in Västra Hamnen. There is
a much smaller and older concrete tower, that also is
unique.
At the oldest part of the old
Kockums shipyard area, at dock number 11 here in Västra
Hamnen, you will find a strange building: An 18 meters
high air shelter, probably the only one of its kind
in Scandinavia. This type of air shelter was common
in Germany during the second world war. The concrete
tower at Kockums shipyard was probably built just before
the second world war begun.
The idea was that bombs dropped
from planes should bounce or slide away from the tower.
There is room for 100 people inside the tower. Today,
the lower level is filled with water. Despite this,
the tower is dry inside, and the concrete looks as new.
The tower has probably never been used for anything.
2004-10-05:
A photo taken from a plane? No.
The
view from Turning Torso? Yes!
Photo: Henrik
Andersson.
Giant pictures from the top
From a mail 2004-10-08
Earlier, we have been able to
admire the
view from floor 36 in Turning Torso in the form
of a giant picture. Now we can add two more giant pictures
to our collection:
Fewer apartments in Turning Torso
From Metro 2004-10-11
Earlier, the number of apartments
in Turning Torso has been said to be 152. Recently,
the number of apartments in Turning Torso has dropped
to 147. The reason for the fewer number of apartments
is that the apartments on the two top floors will be
used for something else. HSB Malmö do not want
to tell us for what yet.
At the same time, the size of
the largest apartment has been changed. Earlier, the
size of the largest apartment was 230 square meters.
Now, the largest apartment is said to be 190 square
meters.
Turning Torso did not top out
last night
From Metro 2004-10-11
The Metro newspaper reported this
Monday that "Turning Torso has reached its full
height" on the front page. But has Turning Torso
really topped out? The 54:th floor is ready, but that
does not mean that the full height has been reached.
Turning Torso is not yet 190 meters high. The elevator
engine room at the top is not done yet.
The Sydsvenskan newspaper made
the same error. The boldest heading on the front page
said "190 meters high up in the air" with
the sub title "Turning Torso topped out yesterday".
Turning Torso is not yet 190 meters high, and Turning
Torso did not reach its final height yesterday. The
54:th floor of Turning Torso is at 179 meters above
the ground.
Pictures from the top
2004-10-05:
What is this? Find out in our svindel-special!
Photo: Henrik Andersson.
From a mail 2004-10-06
This Sunday, there will be celebrations
because the top floor has been built on Turning Torso.
We want to celebrate too, and do so by showing pictures
from the top:
Restrictions for Turning Torso?
From Sydsvenskan 2004-10-08
Anders Reisnert works for the
city. He wants to put restrictions on how Turning Torso
can be modified. He thinks Turning Torso is a cool symbol,
with the correct attributes for a restriction:
- An interesting story
- A world-famous architect
- An intriguing construction
- A building that is impossible
to change
Anders thinks that it will be
at least 25 years before there will be any restrictions,
primarily because the swedish state is not prepared
to take such a big responsibility.
Investigation + HSB keeps Turning
Torso
From Metro and Sydsvenskan 2004-10-06
HSB Malmö has decided to
let an external investigator go through how the HSB
Malmö board has handled the construction of Turning
Torso.
HSB Malmö gets inquiries
asking if they want to sell Turning Torso. According
to the CEO of HSB Malmö, HSB Malmö will keep
Turning Torso for the forseeable future.
HSB is moving in
From Sydsvenskan 2004-10-06
HSB Malmö will move its office
with 70 employees to the bottom floors of Turning Torso.
Other companies has shown an interest in renting space
in Turning Torso primarily as high up in the tower as
possible.
Time to celebrate
From www.turningtorso.com
2004-10-05
This Sunday, October 10th between
15:00 and 17:00, everyone is invited to celebrate that
Turning Torso now has all the 54 floors. The party will
be held close to the construction site. There will be
snacks, entertainment, competitions and information.
The highest residential in Scandinavia
From Skyscrapercity
2004-10-04
Which building is the highest
residential building in Scandinavia?
Turning Torso will be the highest,
if we ignore that at least ten floors will be used for
other things than apartments. But Turning Torso is not
yet completed.
What building is today the highest
residential building in Scandinavia?
It is the residential building
Domus Vista in Copenhagen. The house was built in 1969,
the height is 102 meters, and the number of floors is
40.
Don't miss Turning Torso on Discovery
From www.turningtorso.com
2004-10-03
The 50 minute long rock video
inspired documentary about the construction of Turning
Torso will be shown on Discovery Channel here in Scandinavia
this week:
- Tuesday the 5th of October,
starting at 21:00.
- Saturday the 9th of Oktober,
starting at 20:00.
The documentary follows one work
team for a week, when floor number 36 should be built.
The documentary has already been seen by the personnel
in the Turning Torso office, and many of them realized
how advanced the building process really is by watching.
Many people working with Turning
Torso
From Sydsvenskan 2004-10-03
Many people are working with the
construction of Turning Torso right now. About 150 construction
workers are working in the tower. 34 of them are finishing
the interiors. One limiting factor is the elevators
and the cranes. The cranes cannot be used wheen the
wind is blowing too much. Things remains on the ground
instead of being lifted up to where they are needed.
Turning Torso shirt in store
now
From a walk in the area 2004-10-03
The Turning Torso shirt from Lollopard
can now be bought in a shop near Turning Torso. It is
Kit of Elsinore that now have the shirts in their window.
HSB is thinking about moving
in
From Metro 2004-10-04
Next week, the campaign for renting
out the office space in Turning Torso starts. 4000 square
meters on ten floors. The rent will be 2400 SEK per
square meter and year. Interested companies must hire
at least half a floor, i.e. 200 square meters.
HSB Malmö is thinking about
moving in themselves in Turning Torso. If they do, they
will occupy four floors.
The slow growth of Turning Torso
2004-09-30
The construction of the top floor
in Turning Torso has begun. Was the construction slower
at the end, or did all floors take about the same time
each? The answer can be seen in the diagram below.
The height of Turning
Torso, measured in number of floors.
Worth knowing about Turning Torso
From a lecture arranged by Limhamns
föreläsningsförening 2004-09-28
Kent Hedin, second project leader
for the construction of Turning Torso talked about Turning
Torso. He mentioned the following things of interest:
The original Twisting Torso sculpture
that now is transformed into Turning Torso is done in
white marble. Here in Malmö, we have a copy of
the sculpture done in cherry wood.
The architect of Turning Torso,
Santiago Calatrava, is one of the world's most famous
architects. He originates from Vanlencia in Spain, speaks
six languages and has a swedish wife. Turning Torso
is the first residential building he has done. Calatrava
has mostly done bridges, stadiums and railwaystations
before.
Turning Torso has become well
known outside Sweden, even though the building is not
yet completed. There are many foreign visitor groups
visiting the construction site. There are as many foreign
visitor groups as there are visitor groups from Sweden.
Most apartments in Turning Torso
has two or thre rooms and a kitchen. The size is about
70-80 square meters. The smallest apartment is around
40 square meters, and the largest apartment is around
200 square meters.
Many people has been involved
in drawing the construction drawings for Turning Torso.
Up to 90 people were involved in the work with the drawings
simultaneously.
When the large concrete ground
that Turning Torso stands on should be done, 72 concrete
cars were needed for 60 hours. To make it work, a new
concrete car filled with concrete was needed at the
construction site every fourth minute. The days before
the big operation should start, someone remembered that
the concrete car drivers needed to rest too. This resulted
in calling in more drivers. All concrete car drivers
in the south of Sweden were working on Turning Torso
during the big operation.
Wind tunnel tries has shown that
Turning Torsos twisted body can take more wind than
a normal skyscraper can.
Does the top of Turning Torso
sway? Not much. At the worst possible storm, the top
will give 0,3 meters. If Turning Torso had been built
in steel, the top would have moved more: 0,7-0,8 meters.
Will this movement be noticed? That depends on how large
the acceleration is. In Sweden, we have a limit on the
acceleration in residential buildings on 15-20 milli-g.
The top floors of Turning Torso may actually have a
slightly larger acceleration than that.
The elevators in Turning Torso
has a top speed of 5,8 meters per second. This means
that a ride from the bottom to the top takes little
more than half a minute.
Turning Torso is primary a work
of art. Turning Torso is secondary a residential building.
The construction of Turning Torso has to adjust to these
priorities.
Is the outer steel framework needed?
Yes, but not always (in the beginning, at least):
- At the strongest possible
storm, it is needed.
- After some years, the steel
framework will hold up Turning Torso. A 200 meter
high concrete construction without support would
shrink 0,08 meters every 20th year.
The outer steel framework has
a weight of 900 tons. The diagonal pins are 25 meters
long and has a weight of 25 tons. The two giant cranes
that build Turning Torso can only hold 12,5 tons. To
get the pins up there, other techniques have to be used,
techniques that are normally used by miners.
New thoughts about the top
From Sydsvenskan 2004-09-25
HSB Malmö is thinking about
using the two top floors in Turning Torso (floor 53
and 54) to something else than apartments. There are
several alternatives. One alternative is some kind of
conference facility. HSB Malmö will soon inform
us about how the top floors will be used.
Lars comment: Then we might eventually
get a revolving roof top restaurant in Turning Torso,
similar to any skyscraper with some confidence in the
US. The arguments against giving the public access to
the top of Turning Torso has been that we must think
about the safety for the residents, and that the elevators
would not have capacity enough.
Turning Torso on Discovery in
October
From Skyscrapercity.com
2004-09-17
The program about Turning Torso
in the Extreme Engineering series on Discovery Channel
will be shown here in Scandinavia on October 5th, at
21:00 and on October 9th, at 20:00.
Since the program has already
been shown in the US and can be found on DVD, there
are some people that have already seen the program:
Watched it and it
was pretty interesting. The program was about a construction
crew and the work they did in a week (a full 7 days).
If I remember correctly, they were working on the 36th
and 37th floor (or somewhere around that height) during
that particular week. Lots of interesting stuff about
how the project came into being and the issues they
had and have to content with. The area around the tower
looks barren though.
From Sydsvenskan
around 2004-09-15
The Turning Torso
project leader Ingvar Nohlin has calculated that the
3,5 ton heavy crane secion that fell down fell with
a speed of 150 kilometers per hour.
The article writer
has also calculated the speed. He concluded that the
average speed was around 150 kilometers per hour. The
top speed was much higher: Around 226 kilometers per
hour.
Lars comment: I went through the
calculations too, and came up with the same speed as
the article writer. This speed is valid if you can ignore
the air resistance, and in this case you should be able
to ignore that. All objects that for some reason fall
out of the 0,1 meter wide windows in Turning Torso will
hit the ground at a speed of over 200 kilometers an
hour, if the object is dropped from one of the top floors,
and if the air resistance can be ignored. High heights
are always security risks.
From Metro 2004-09-16
Turning Torso will soon reach
its full height. This will be celebrated with two parties:
- Around 800 guests are invited
to party at the Glasklart restaurant at Dockan here
in Västra Hamnen. This party is on October
8.
- Around 1500 people will turn
up when at the party where everyone can participate.
This party will be held at the parking space close
to Turning Torso, in a large tent.
At both parties, there will be
food, drink and entertainment. There will probably be
fireworks too.
From Sydsvenskan
2004-09-10
It was time to increase
the height of one of the giant cranes used when building
Turning Torso. A six meters long and 3,5 ton heavy crane
section was being lifted. When the section was at the
top, 200 meters from the ground, it fell down and landed
at the foot of Turning Torso. No human injuries, and
no material was destroyed, except for the crane section
itself.
From Malmö Magasinet
2004-09-09
The Lollopard company
has made it with its t-shirts showing the Kockumskranen,
the old shipyard landmark in Västra Hamnen that
was brought down to build new houses.
Now, the company
hopes that their new garment with a picture of Turning
Torso will be an equally big success.
Many companies have
got "no" as an answer when they have wanted
to use the Turning Torso picture, but the Lollopard
idea was accepted by HSB Malmö.
From Sydsvenskan
around 2004-09-07 and Sveriges Radio 2004-09-07
HSB Sundsfastigheter
has bought two areas in Västra Hamnen for 35 million
SEK altogether:
One area
to the north of Turning Torso. HSB is building a
house with many uses here:
The
ground level will contain a restaurant, a café,
shops and an exhibition area.
The
three next floors will contain 365 parking spaces
in total.
The
two top floors will contain 40-50 smaller apartments
suitable for students.
This building
will be ready at the same time as Turning Torso,
i.e. late Summer 2005. The building cost is 250
million SEK. Parkering Malmö will rent all
parking places in the house for 3,6 million SEK
per year, in ten years. Parking Malmö will
rent out the parking places:
The
lower parking floor is for short term visitors.
The
two upper parking floors are for those living
in Turning Torso or the area around Turning
Torso.
One area
south of Turning Torso, where HSB Malmö today
has an office and an exhibition. Here, they will
eventually build more permanent commercial buildings
for offices and shops. This area costs 13,3 million
SEK and the size is 5350 square meters.
From Sydsvenskan
2004-09-03
A 100 meter long
parking house with 500 parking places is built to the
north of Turning Torso, along Västra Varvsgatan
here in Västra Hamnen.
The city has changed
the plans for the parking house many times. From the
beginning, it was planned for a low parking house. The
changed plan now permit a parking house with six floors.
According to Anders
Rubin (working for the city) the plan was changed because
the demand for parking places in the area is huge, and
that need has to be fulfilled before considering other
interests.
Lars comment: Look
at that! The wind has changed (or is it the reality
that has caught up on the dreams?): The same politicans
that earlier decided that we in Västra Hamnen should
do with less parking places that in the rest of the
city (0,8 parking places for each apartment, instead
of 1,1 parking places for each apartment) now decides
that we are going to get more parking places than the
plan originally permitted.
From Sydsvenskan 2004-08-25
The two lower cubes in Turning
Torso contains ten floors with 4000 square meters reserved
for commercial use. The office space is going to be
rented out for 2400 SEK per square meter and year. The
normal rent for new office rental contracts in Malmö
is between 1800 and 1850 SEK per square meter and year.
According to HSB, at least 40 companies has shown an
interest. The process of renting out the office space
will start any day now.
The rent for the residential apartments
will be set in November. 700 persons has shown an interest
for renting an apartment.
From a tour on the internet 2004-08-03
The text on the Turning Torso
DVD cover goes like this:
Engineers teem with confidence
as they set out to build the tallest skyscraper in Northern
Europe. But, there's one twist: This nightmare of a
structure has to complete a 90-degree turn before reaching
its final floor – 600 feet up. Nothing like it has ever
been built before, and the setting – Malmo, Sweden –
won't make the impossible task any easier. Freezing,
dark winters and brutal North Sea winds threaten to
turn the construction site into an unworkable environment,
forcing the crew to rethink their ambitious plan.
Discovery Channel starts selling
the Turning Torso DVD on August 16th, at least on the
american market. The price is $21.95, and you find the
DVD on the Discovery
Channel store.
(Discovery Channel has recorded
a 50-minute program about Turning Torso in the Extreme
Engineering series. It is this program that you will
find on the DVD. The program was shown in the US in
July, and it will be shown in the rest of the world
this fall.)
Från a tour on the internet
2004-08-03
Time Magazine had an article 2004-07-26
about Turning Torso, because of the exhibition at the
Museum of Modern Art in New York about skyscrapers that
is built in the world despite what happened in New York.
This is what Time Magazine has to say about Turning
Torso:
The Spanish designer Santiago
Calatrava is by training both an architect and an engineer,
and his two new high-rise projects wear their engineering
on their sleeves. Turning Torso, an apartment and office
tower under construction in Malmo, Sweden, spirals suavely
around its central core like a plug of twisted taffy,
producing a form that looks stable and unified but also
pliant and voluptuous.
From Radio Malmöhus 2004-07-27
Since it stood clear that it will
be rental apartments in Turning Torso, about 600 people
has announced their interest for renting one of the
152 apartments. After the summer vacations, the rent
for all the apartments will be decided. The rent will
be around 13 000 to 15 000 SEK for three rooms and a
kitchen. The rents will be ready around October-November,
and then all interested will get a mail. The mail will
be followed up with customer meetings.
From Sydsvenskan and Wired
2004-07-14
Turning Torso is one of 25 high
buildings shown at an exhibition at the Museum of Modern
Art in New York, beginning July 16:th. The exhibition
wants to show that high buildings are built in he world,
despite the act of terror against World Trade Center.
The exhibition ends September 27:th.
In an
article in Wired you can read the following about
Turning Torso, because of the exhibition:
- Turning Torso represents
a growing trend in architecture moving towards mixed-use
towers, where the skyscrapers are used 24 hours
a day.
- Turning Torso, with its incredibly
small diameter of about 100 feet, is just one of
the exhibition's example on radical engineering.
- But the exhibition is not
only about building the previously not possible.
Calatrava said it like this: The exhibition is about
the most economical way of using land. Lars comment:
Is Turning Torso the most economical way of using
the land?
From www.turningtorso.com
2004-06-30
Turning
Torso with Sundspromenaden, kallbadhuset and a pier
for bathing in the front. Photo: Lars Tufvesson. Nice?
Ugly? Comment!
- Turning Torso has reached
a height of 46 floors (153 meters).
- Turning Torso will be 54
floors (190 meters).
The highest crane is currently
at 190 meters, which makes it easy to imagine how high
Turning Torso will be.
From a home page with a list:
"European Skyscrapers" 2004-06-28
Turning Torso will become 190
meters high, with 54 floors.
The top list for Europe's highest
finished buildings contains at least the following buildings:
- 300 meters, 63 floors,
office building:
Commerzbank Tower, 1997, Frankfurt,
Germany.
- 256 meters, 70 floors,
office building:
Messeturm, 1991, Frankfurt,
Germany.
- 240 meters, 54 floors,
office building:
Main Tower, 2000, Frankfurt,
Germany.
- 239 meters, 39 floors,
university building:
Lomonosov University,
1953, Moscow, Russia.
- 236 meters, 50 floors,
office building:
One Canada Square, 1991, London,
UK.
- 231 meters, 33 floors,
cultural building:
Cultur Palace, 1955,
Warsaw, Poland.
- 213 meters, 45 floors,
office building:
HSBC UK Headquarters, 2002,
London, UK.
- 209 meters, 59 floors,
office building:
Tour de Montparnasse, 1973,
Paris, France.
- 208 meters, 53 floors,
office building:
Westend Tower, 1993, Frankfurt,
Germany.
- 208 meters, 42 floors,
office building:
Warsaw Trade Tower, 1999, Warsaw,
Poland.
- 200 meters, 45 floors,
office building:
Citigroup Centre, 2001, London,
UK.
- 200 meters, 36 floors,
office building:
Currency Stock Exchange, 1999,
Moscow, Russia.
- 200 meters, 29 floors,
hotel building:
Ukraine Hotel, 1955, Moscow,
Russia.
Comments to the list:
- If Scandinavian Tower would
be built here in Malmö according to the original
plans, (325 meters, 85 floors), it would have been
the highest building of Europe.
- The completed buildings in
Europe that are higher than what Turning Torso will
be, are classified as:
- office buildings
- cultural buildings
- university buildings
- hotel buildings
- Under construction, we have
a building that will take the third place:
- 245 meters, 50 floors,
office building:
Arena City Tower, 2004,
Birmingham, UK
- Other high buildings under
construction:
- 228 meters, 64 floors,
office building:
MAX, 2006, Frankfurt, Germany
- 218 meters, 50 floors,
office building:
Luxor Tower, 2004, Rotterdam,
Holland
- Europe's highest residential
building is:
- 176 meters, 32 floors,
residential building:
Kotelnicheskaya
Naberezhnaya, 1952, Moscow, Russia.
HSB Malmö wants to classify
Turning Torso as Europe's highest residential building.
Against this classification, we have the following:
- Turning Torso is not completed
yet.
- The space in Turning Torso
is less than 90% for residential use. This makes
it impossible to classify the building as a residential
building according to the definition used by skyscrapers.com
.
On the other hand, Turning Torso
will have the highest located apartments in Europe,
if you look only to the floor plan numbers.
From Sydsvenskan 2004-06-24
HSB Malmö has decided to
not create a hotel of the office space in Turning Torso
on floor three to twelve. Reasons:
- The interior decoration of
the floors would be delayed, because it would have
been necessary to negotiate with interested hotel
chains.
- It would have been hard for
the hotel to make a profit.
From Dagens Industri 2004-06-23
Today, Dagens Industri compares
Turning Torso (190 meters high, 19 200 square meters)
with Kista Science Tower (160 meters high, 41 000 square
meters).
Both has a construction cost of
about 1,6 billion SEK.
While Kista Science Tower was
expected to cost that much, Turning Torso will become
almost three times as expensive as originally calculated.
Dagens Industri estimates the
value of Turning Torso to 500-600 million SEK, based
on the rental level that HSB Malmö has announced
for Turning Torso.
From Dagens Industri 2004-06-23
Here are a couple of reasons why
Turning Torso has become more expensive than expected:
- The project management for
Turning Torso has many times had to re-think and
try new ways.
- The work has became more
expensive, because it has not been possible to ask
sub-contractors to do work. As project leader Ingvar
Nohlin said: "If we that work with Turning
Torso every day cannot understand how everything
should fit together, how should we be able to out-source
sub projects?"
- The union stopped HSB Malmö's
plans on shift work. The construction work is progressing
slower because of this than it could have done.
- Delays means a higher total
cost. For instance, the rent for the two giant cranes
is one million SEK each month.
From Dagens Industri 2004-06-23
Floor three to twelve in Turning
Torso are thought to be used as office space. HSB Malmö
is currently thinking on if it would be better to use
the floors as a hotel. This idea occurred in May when
it stood clear that Scandinavian Tower, the planned
giant hotel in the Malmö outskirts, will become
significantly smaller than originally planned.
From Sydsvenskan 2004-06-13
Mikael Bergstrand's article in
Sydsvenskan June 13th compared Turning Torso in Malmö
with the Sydney Opera House. In both cities...
- ...they had famous bridges
before construction started: The Öresund bridge
and Sydney Harbour bridge respectively.
- ...the construction of a
giant building was initiated: Turning Torso and
Sydney Opera House respectively.
- ...a famous foreign architect
was consulted: Santiago Calatrava and Jörn
Utzon respectively.
- ...they wanted a land mark,
a port to the sea and a nice eye catcher.
- ...they counted very wrong
on the cost of construction.
- ...responsible persons had
to leave their jobs.
- ...the project was completed
despite the cost increase.
If the construction history of
Turning Torso continues to resemble the construction
history for Sydney Opera House, then we can anticipate
the following:
- With time, the catastrophe
becomes a success. All the bad is forgotten.
- The building will be considered
one of the world's modern wonders. Everyone is bewildered
by its beauty.
From Sydsvenskan around 2004-06-05
HSB Malmö do not need to
negotiate with Hyresgästföreningen about the
initial rental level for apartments in Turning Torso,
because there are no similar apartments to compare with.
HSB Malmö has said that the
rent will be around 1200 and 2000 SEK per square meter
and year. The lower level corresponds to the rental
level at Potatisåkern, a recently built area of
rental flats nearby. The higher level is just above
the rental level that MKB uses for the most expensive
apartments in Västra Hamnen.
People moving in to Turning Torso
will after six months be allowed to test the rental
level in hyresnämnden. If hyresnämnden considers
the rental level too high, they can force HSB Malmö
to lower the rent.
From Sydsvenskan 2004-06-03
The local newspaper Sydsvenskan
today comments Turning Torso on the second page, because
of the large loss of money that the construction of
Turning Torso means for HSB Malmö. Sydsvenskan
writes:
- Even if HSB people are upset,
people living in Malmö should be thankful to
HSB because they dared to build Turning Torso. Turning
Torso will in the forseeable future be the large
profile of Malmö.
- The Bo01 area with Turning
Torso has become a tourist magnet. This is good
for Malmö and for people living in Malmö.
In the end, it will also be good for HSB.
From Malmö Magasinet 2004-06-03
The five elevators in Turning
Torso are faster than normal elevators. With a speed
of 4,5 meters per second, the trip from the bottom to
the 54:th floor takes 38 seconds. There are faster elevators
already today in Sweden. The elevators in Kista Science
Tower moves with a speed of six meters per second.
One of the elevators in Turning
Torso will be usable during a fire by the firemen. A
separate ventilation system will create a high air pressure
in this elevator shaft, to keep the fire smoke away.
From Metro, Sydsvenskan and www.turningtorso.com
2004-06-02
HSB Malmö's management team
decided 2004-05-27 that the apartments in Turning Torso
should be converted to rental apartments. They want
all apartments rented out on the first day. The rent
will be between 1200 and 2000 SEK per square meter and
year. 2000 SEK per square meter and year means 15 700
SEK per month for 100 square meters.
First in the queue to the rental
apartments are the ten persons that had signed a contract
for buying an apartment. After that comes the persons
in HSB's general apartment queue. Third, the 60 persons
that have announced their interest for a rental apartment
in Turning Torso.
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