HSB Turning Torso is a skyscraper in Malm?, Sweden, located on the Swedish side of the ?resund strait. It was designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and officially opened on 27 August 2005. The tower reaches a height of 190 metres (623 feet) with 54 stories. Upon completion, it was the tallest building in Scandinavia, the tallest residential building in the EU and the second tallest residential building in Europe, after the 264-metre-high Triumph-Palace in Moscow.

The 86 metre high Kronprinsen was the tallest building in Malm? before Turning Torso. …click here to read more

If all the square’s skyscrapers had been anything like the examples below that skyward respite would’ve been absent. no doubt in a decade that will have changed as property owners latch on to the idea of media facades and join the race to wrap the largest number of LEDs around a building as possible.
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Burj Dubai Skyscraper- World Highest Building in Burj Dubai
Cost: $4,100,000,000
This remarkable feat in the construction of Emaar’s iconic super tower at the Burj Dubai Downtown development was accomplished in less than 900 days since excavation work started in January, 2004. Work is on course for a 2008 completion with one new level added every four days.

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When Construction Goes Wrong

How would you explain that all these “structures” passed the quality control and house inspections? Only by the possible fact that controllers and inspectors were drunk too. Or just near-sighted. I really want to believe the latter, but in some countries they are actually neither drunk or blind - but handsomely bribed. See for yourself: …click here to read more