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Introduction
The twisting twizzler like body of the Turning Torso tower is a mind boggling, stop and scratch your head type of experience. This structure located in Malmo Sweden and has brought a new found glory to the city and its people. It is the first building of its kind and has claimed records throughout its country and Europe.

Designer
Before the construction of the building can be understood one must be able to understand the creator. The building was commissioned by Johnny Orback after seeing architect Santiago Calatravas sculpture “Twisting Torso” Calatravas is an artist, architect, and a structural engineer. He has combined many different disciplines which together allow him to create such buildings. His early career was focused heavily on the building bridges and train stations throughout Spain and reached as far west as Canada. His first project in the United States was the Quadracci Pavilion at the Milwaukee Art Museum. It was a massive project that was really breakout role for him here in the states and is now designing the World Trade Center Train substation in New York. The turning torso was actually his first high rise building back which was completed in 2005. Calatravas was able to combine his structural engineering skills and his artistic prowess to create a lasting piece of structural architecture that is both artistic and socially useful.

Structural Description
The building itself is approximately 623 ft (approximately 190m) tall and towers over the Swedish side of a strait located in the area. In total there are 54-floors to the building 9 cubes and also 1 floor between each cube. The structure consists of 9 5-floor cubes which are stacked on top of each other each turning more and more as it gradually makes its way up so that the final cube is turned 90degrees from the original cube. The entire building is designed to look like a turning upper half of the human body. The first two cubes are reserved as office space for rental while the remaining 7 sections serve as apartments. The overall cost building this tower was about 1.5 billion Swedish Krones, which converts to about $229 million.

Qualifications as Structural Art
The building has an elegant design, based on a unique piece art a sculpture of the human body. There is a graceful almost fluid like air that surrounds the building making it one of a kind. There are not many other buildings that are like that. Although the price seems extremely high $229 million to build the structure it is actually very economically efficient.The first two cubes are actually being used as office space being rented out to businesses and companies. The remaining cubes are used as apartments while the floors in between those are being used as banquet halls, gyms, and observation decks. The constant incoming revenue stream is worth the cost of the entire building. Scientifically speaking this building is a wonder because the the fact it is turning ever so slightly until the point where the top cube is 90 degrees from the bottom cube.