Half-way mark
Santiago Calatrava
Turning Torso
Malmø, Sweden
On Sunday December 7th Malmø celebrated the "Turning Torso" reaching it's half-way mark. Once completed the building will be Europe's tallest residential skyscraper and Scandinavia's tallest building.
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Nine cubes, twisting 90 degrees from bottom to top, will rise 54 stories topped with a glass-enclosed floor for meetings and special events, and a rooftop observation deck with vistas across the Øresund strait to the Øresund Bridge and Copenhagen.
Sketch courtesy Santiago Calatrava
The residential tower is meant to be seen as a free standing sculptural element inspired by the human body.
Height: 186 meters
Twisting from base to top: 90 degrees
Apartment: 45 in nine cubes
Total area: 12,150 square meters
Completion is estimated for Spring 2005
Santiago Calatrava
The Poetics of Movement
By Alexander Tzonis
Publisher: Universe Books
In his numerous buildings, engineering projects, sculptures, and furniture designs, Santiago Calatrava has developed a unique poetics of morphology that overlaps structure and movement.
Combining art and science, technology and architecture, Calatrava's bridges and buildings create a sublime elegance in their urban contexts. With dynamic curves, leaning vertical elements, and mechanically operable roofs, they embody potential motion. In this book,
Alexander Tzonis explores Calatrava's "poetics of movement" not only in the architect's large-scale work, but also in his drawings and sculptures.
The book features thirty-five projects, fully documented with photographs, drawings, and sketches. Included are Calatrava's most recent works - the Milwaukee Art Museum Addition and the Orient Station in Lisbon - and his best known, from the Montjuic Tower to the Alameda Bridge.
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December 15, 2003
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