The Turning Torso has 54 floors. The skyscraper stands in Malmö, Sweden, and was designed by Spanish-Swiss architect Santiago Calatrava.
Its form was inspired by Calatrava’s marble sculpture Twisting Torso. The completed tower is arranged in nine sections, each containing five floors, although the full building’s counted floor total is 54. As the sections rise, the structure turns 90 degrees around its central core.
The upper levels are not all ordinary apartments. Floors 50–52 include club, meeting, reception and restaurant facilities, while floors 53 and 54 are conference floors. Floor 49 contains an observation area, helping explain why descriptions sometimes emphasize individual floor ranges rather than the total.
A common mix-up is to confuse the floor count with the tower’s height: Turning Torso is 190 metres tall, but it has 54 floors—not 57, 60 or 48. It opened in 2005 and contains 147 apartments.