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'As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes'.
Mel Brooks
Turning Torso is a residential skyscraper in Sweden and the tallest building in the Nordic countries. Located in Malmö on the Swedish side of the Öresund strait, it was built and is owned by HSB Sweden.
The project was designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and officially opened on 27 August 2005. The tower reaches a height of 190 metres (623 feet) with 54 stories and 147 apartments.
In August 2015, it was announced that the building was the winner of the 10 Year Award from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.
Turning Torso is based on a sculpture by Calatrava, called Twisting Torso, which is a white marble piece based on the form of a twisting human being.
In 1999, HSB Malmö's former managing director, Johnny Örbäck, saw the sculpture in a brochure presenting Calatrava in connection with his contribution to the architectural competition for the Öresund Bridge. It was on this occasion that Örbäck was inspired to build HSB Turning Torso. Shortly afterwards he travelled to Zurich to meet Calatrava, and ask him to design a residential building based on the idea of a structure of twisting cubes.
A similar, taller skyscraper featuring a 90° twist is the Cayan Tower, located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
The first two 48x48 baseplates are turning out pretty neat so far. Still a lot of work to do as not everything is tiled and the locomotive shed is still nowhere near being done. I did however, decide on a style. Rather than having a brickbuilt building I wanted something different. I chose the Busch 1423 model kit as a reference. It is based on lokschuppen Schönheide built in 1893, which in reality is for a smallspurbahn. So, I am taking a lot of creative liberties here just like the designers of the kit.
Overall this makes building the walls a lot of fun, but also a lot of work and progress is slow...
Self-Portrait after turning 60
( it's the new 40 👍)
Have missed everyone and you're always in my prayers. Still looking for decent housing ... miss you all 💕
MALMÖ (Suécia): Turning Torso.
Turning Torso é um arranha-céus localizado na cidade de Malmö, no sul da Suécia, no lado sueco do estreito de Öresund. Foi desenhado pelo famoso arquiteto Santiago Calatrava com base em uma de suas esculturas, feita em mármore, chamada "Twisting Torso". (Wikipedia)
Pictured turning out of Middle Street in Brixham we see Country Bus Optare Solo, YJ06FYU, as it heads towards the stop on the Strand whilst operating town service 16.
Company: Country Bus of Heathfield
Registration: YJ06FYU
Fleet Number: 311
New: 2006
Chassis: Optare Solo M850
Bodywork: Optare B25F
Route: 16 (Town Square-Quay-South Bay-Town Square)
Location: The Strand, Brixham
History: New to Nordcat Services of Sturminster Newton
Exposure: 1/1000 @ f6.3 200ISO
Date: 4 May 2016
I thought you might like to see that the seasons are turning....a leaf on the river, drifting out and taking summer with it. Still very hot but the signs of autumn are there, yesterday a flurry of burnt out leaves from the plane trees filling the gutter with compost. Take heart you frozen Northern people, summer is on its way.
Eighth in the series on how to turn a wooden bowl. This shows the shaped blank mounted on the scroll chuck, and the bowl partially hollowed out. Shavings from this can be seen beneath the bowl piled on the lathe frame. You can see how different the grain can look as the operation continues. The two holes you can see are where the faceplate was originally screwed on. These will disppear shortly, as the bowl deepens. For 2016: one photo each day (134/366).
So now I am torn I do like being blonde but when I get back to the go to hair I can’t choose 😱. The one advantage of my hair being mine coz I bought it is the option to change it out but when drastically different looks actually work hard to pic. Irony is if it was my actual hair I would chop it off and try a pixie cut 😂 ♀️
Here we have now wearing it's new livery is Arriva Buses Wales Wrightbus VDL SB120 Cadet DK55 FXH 2523 is seen on a hot sunny day at Rhyl bus station working on route 35 to Prestatyn. 21/04/18
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A video in December time is precious. If it looks like an aimless walkabout - it is! I do like to film on location where there are more people, but with lockdon, tier restrictions and so many places closed I still want to practise getting out and about. Thank you for your support xx
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Sitting on the hump-of-hill by the tunnel before making my way into The Boot. Wasn't feeling the crowds that gather further-down closer to this turn... it was asses-and-elbows at the fence. So I went further away and lucked-out with a clean background... no billboards behind :D
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Yes, today I turned 20 years old and truly joined the ranks of the AFOL's. :)
And these last couple of years in the online LEGO community have been downright awesome! Since Feb 2012, my flickr stream has had 3.3 million views, I have participated in Iron Builder, won the CCC Master Builder award, been interviewed many times, won dozens of contests and met a bunch of great people among many other wonderful things.
I've tagged some of my friends, and if you're not tagged and would like to be go ahead and add yourself. :)
Big thanks to my friends and supporters for making my experience in the LEGO community so worthwhile!
~Brother Steven