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Malmö is the third largest city of Sweden (behind Stockholm and Göteborg).
It lies in the deep southwest of the country and has almost 275,000 inhabitants.
Since 2000, the city is connected with Copenhagen, Denmark, and the rest of Europe,
through the 8 kilometers long Oresund bridge.
Until 1658, Malmö was a Danish city.
It was founded in the 13th century as Malmhaug (sandpile).
In 1437, Erik of Pomerania granted the City of Malmö its own coat of arms,
which is still the official symbol of the city.
Until 1658, Malmö prospered as one of Denmarks largest cities.
In 1658, after the treaty of Roskilde (which ended a bloody war between Denmark and Sweden),
Malmö became a Swedish city.
At the beginning of the 18th century the city had some 2,300 inhabitants,
but after wars and plagues, the population was decimated to just over 1,500 by 1728.
In the late 18th century the modern harbor was constructed
and the city began expanding, reaching 3,800 inhabitants by 1800.
In the two centuries that followed Malmö became a city
based on shipbuilding and construction related industries,
reaching 265,000 inhabitants by 1971.
At the end of the last century, the city went through a large recession,
with many jobs lost, a large budget deficit, inhabitants that fled town,
and Sweden's largest unemployment rate.
Luckily, in the last few years there has been a revival,
mainly due to the economic integration brought about by the Oresund Bridge,
a university college founded in 1998, the university of Lund with its School of Technology (LTH),
and the positve effects of integration into the European Union.
At the beginning of the 21st century, Malmö was and still is undergoing a transition
from being an industrial city to a city of knowledge.

Malmö has many old buildings and many parks.
It also has many shops and a lot of shopping centers.
But, one of the main attractions is 2005's addition to its
(up to that point not very impressive) skyline: Turning Torso

On this and this page, you will find many pictures of this tower,
that was completed in 2005, and is officially named HSB Turning Torso.
Also, on this page there are also few pictures of some other tall buildings of Malmö.

On the pictures:
Above left: Western Harbour with Turning Torso seen from the nearby Ribersborgsbeach.
Above right: some of the older buildings of Malmö seen at dusk from Inre Hamnen.


Above: Malmö's and Sweden's tallest: HSB Turning Torso, seen from a couple of angles.
For more pictures and info about this distinctive tower, click here,
You will get to a special Turning Torso page, with many more pictures (43).


Above: Kronprinsen (82m/269f, 27 stories, 1964).
This residential/office complex was the city's tallest building for many years.


Above: Kockumshuset (65m/213f, 16 stories, 1958).
The headquarters of Kockums, the local shipyard company.


Above left: Hilton Malmö City (69m/226f, 22 stories, 1989).
Above right: Slagthuset (63m/f, 13 stories, 1991).
The building is in use as office, but the ground floor and basement floor
house one of Scandinavia's biggest and best nightclubs.


Above left: Sydsvenska Dagbladt (55m/180f, 15 stories, 1965).
The headquarter of the local newspaper.
Above middle right: Öresunds Huset (?m/?f (about 50m), 14 stories, 1973).
Above right: Lorensborgsgatan 4 A-B (48m/157f, 16 stories, 19??).
One of a few residential buildings in Malmö that are about 45-50metres tall.


Above: Turning Torso can be found in the Western Harbour area,
a new residential area with lots of different kinds of architecture (low-rise).
On this picture you can see a couple of houses on water.
Above middle: the waterfront in the Western Harbour area.
Above right: a view towards the distinctive low-rise architecture of Western Harbour.


Above: some close-up examples of the low-rise architecture of Western Harbour.