The Øresund bridge
Running out to Denmark across the strait.
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A residential tower a hundred and ninety metres high in Västra Hamnen, the tallest building in Scandinavia, designed by the Spaniard **Santiago Calatrava** and completed in 2005. Its form is nine stacked cubes twisting ninety degrees from bottom to top, based on a sculpture Calatrava made of a twisting human torso. **The tower is private housing and cannot be visited inside** — there is no viewing platform and no tours, which surprises many people. It is seen from outside, and the best angles are from Scaniaparken and Ribersborg beach.
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Scaniaparken lies at the north-western tip of Malmö, at the edge of **Västra Hamnen** — the western harbour — looking straight out at the Øresund and its bridge. The site was the Kockums shipyard, among the largest in the world in its day, which closed in the 1980s and left the area an industrial ruin. It was wholly redeveloped from 2001 into an experimental residential quarter running entirely on renewable energy — a project taught in urban planning. The park itself is plain, and deliberately so: grass and stone terraces stepping down to the water, swimming platforms, and a walking path. There is nothing in it but the sea — which is the point. From it you see the **Øresund bridge** running out to Denmark, the twisting **Turning Torso** behind you, and the sun setting over the water. In summer people from Malmö swim off its rocks. **Free and always open.**
Running out to Denmark across the strait.
Stepping into the water; people swim off them in summer.
Scaniaparken, Västra Hamnen, Malmö