Turning Torso

This is another very discussed building in Malmo. It's called turning torso and is this autumn just getting finished in a new residential area by the coast in a house exhibition area called Bo01 in malmo. It's made by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava (think that's the right spelling) as residential tower, the highest building in Sweden. malmo is an old industrial town but now in the 21st century, when the industries are disappearing, the town is looking for a new identity and the solution was this tower..It's showing the new identity of Malmo as a university and business town as a financial center in Scandinavia., I don't know if it's successful though..The public really disliked it from the beginning but I think by reading the papers that they are starting to like it more and more. It is a very cool twisted building but as first planned, to only be 8 stories high now 54 floors, maybe it would have fitted in to the surroundings a bit more, malmo is after all not new York (where calatrava are building the same type of towers). Financially it was a disaster, no one wanted to buy the apartments so they had to be rented out instead and there's been a big financial lost but it's got a lot of press and definitely worked as commercial for malmo which was the whole point anyways..Personally I don't think that towers add anything to the experience of the ground and how it is to be in the area itself. You can't experience the tower on the ground next to it without looking straight upwards which we normally don't do when walking around so to be able to make it a good space it's all depending on the landscape around the tower..
I also found a blog in English about the tower which is
www.bizzbook.com/blog/index.php
Don't know how interesting it would be for anyone to have a look at but only realized that we're surrounded of blogs..