Tuesday, July 8, 2008

way back from Copenhagen...


Denmark, Copenhagen.







Sweden, Malmö...



Turning Torso...

The boarder...


I love the Scandinavian clouds or moln as we say in Swedish… When I was in Denmark and visit my friend Clara, she didn’t know the Swedish work for clouds, and she is really good to understand Swedish… so it get a little bite funny situation when I was talking about how much I like our “moln”…
The sky was a little bit dramatic when I went home, really, really nice to see the theatrical sky…


Views from the bus… I took the Säfflebus, really good price and only about 4 hours trip from Gothenburg to Copenhagen.
I really like the bridge over to Denmark or to Sweden, depend of witch way you are going…
I have never take a closer look at the Turning Torso in Malmö, but on distant it looks really impressive, but it’s a land mark and an expansive boast building…


HSB Turning Torso is a skyscraper in Malmö, Sweden, located on the Swedish side of the Öresund 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 meter high Kronprinsen was the tallest building in Malmö before Turning Torso.

Santiago Calatrava Valls (born July 28, 1951) is an internationally recognized and award-winning Spanish architect, sculptor and structural engineer whose principal office is in Zurich, Switzerland. Classed now among the elite designers of the world, he has offices in Zurich, Paris, New York and elsewhere.

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