eileen
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:09 pm Post subject: Modern Sweden. |
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Do you all remember Frank posting a piccie of this building for us?
Well I thought you'd all like to know a bit more about it and see what one of the apartemnts inside it looks like.
"The design is based on a sculpture by Santiago Calatrava called Twisting Torso. It uses nine five-story cubes that twist as it rises; the top-most segment is twisted ninety degrees clockwise with respect to the ground floor. Each floor basically consists of a rectangular section surrounding the central core, along with a triangular section, which is partially supported by an exterior steel scaffold. The two bottom cubes are intended as office space. Cubes three through nine houses 149 luxury apartments.
The Twisting Torso sculpture is a white marble piece based on the form of a twisting human being. Johnny Örbäck, former CEO of the Turning Torso contractor and Board Chairman of the Malmö branch of the co-operative housing association HSB, saw the sculpture in 1999 and contacted Calatrava to ask him to design a building using the same concept. Construction started in the summer of 2001.
One reason for the building of Turning Torso was to reestablish a recognizable skyline for Malmö since the removal of Kockumskranen ("The Kockum Crane") in 2002, which was located less than a kilometer from Turning Torso. The local politicians deemed it important for the inhabitants to have a symbol for Malmö - Kockumskranen, which was a large crane that had been used for ship building somewhat symbolized the city's blue collar roots. Turning Torso can be seen as a monument of a new, more internationalised Malmö."
Here one of the apartements as promised.
A got a friend of my youngest son to post the info to me in an e.mail. 
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:19 pm Post subject: |
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It's quite an amazing structure to stand next to. Plays with your head a bit. The residents are made up of a lot of people who undoubtedly work in high paying jobs in Malmö or Copenhagen in Denmark, which is a 20 minute train ride across the öresund bridge which connects Sweden and Denmark.
Thanks for the info Eils  You wouldn't see it on the skyline today though, rain rain rain.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:27 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Eileen, another thing I would probably not have ever seen. You do learn a lot on the Stew.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 1:04 pm Post subject: |
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What an impressive looking building Eileen! The interior is nice too, but white would NEVER work for me!
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eileen
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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Me neither Netty!!! 
Here's a pic of the the öresund bridge which connects Sweden and Denmark that Frank mentioned in his reply.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:23 pm Post subject: |
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Am I missing something here? Where's the rest of that bridge?
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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That was my first thought too. DR says the rest of it is in a tunnel so ships can cross. Dooley
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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I was wondering the same thing, Netty. Looks like a big parking lot out there in the middle.
The apartment building? I could live there. Nice.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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Wow that is a really interesting building!! I agree the white would never work for me either but I could definately live in that apartment.
Thanks for posting the info Eileen!
Frank I was watching tv the other night and a program came on that featured Malmo Sweden!! You live in a beautiful place, what a lucky guy you are!!
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I could not live with all that white.I could never travel that bridge it would scare the bejesus out of me.The building is beautiful .Thanks for posting as I'm sure thats the only way I will get to visit that breath taking place.
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WOW! They're just amazing, aren't they?!? Both the building AND the tunnel/bridge.
I wish I had a friend living there, so that I could visit, I'd love that.
But I don't think I'd actually like to live up there,
there is something in me that needs direct contact with the earth
to feel that I'm truly myself.  Weird, huh?
Anyway, where would I garden?
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I feel the same way Zuzu,I need to find dirt and get down digging and planting.I'm a country gal and always will be.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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"But I don't think I'd actually like to live up there, there is something in me that needs direct contact with the earth"
In my case Zuzu it's called a phobia of heights!!!! 
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:56 am Post subject: |
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Seriously cool - both of them. I may not be able to travel all over the world, but sometimes you-all help me feel like I have.
I agree about the white WHITE WHITE apartment - yikes! Looks like a place that has no one living in it because they are always gone working...
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I only do dry land. I don't fly and I don't swim. I don't do boats either. I don't do apartments. I like a house with a bit of yard to grow things. Comes from being raised on a farm in formative years. Dooley
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