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我们清楚自己被建筑物围抱着，我们会赞美那些叹为观止的建筑，会忽略那些不起眼的、甚至颓败的建筑，我们以为建筑只是没有生命的容器。但是，用心想想，你会发现其实每个真诚的建筑，都是人存在于世界的一种形式。诗意的建筑甚至能提升人的精神和周围环境的层次。这次我们介绍的“旋转中心”正是人类用自己的聪明和美感，在天空划下的一道亮丽景致。
Completed in 2005 after a four-year build, the Turning Torso was designed by Santiago Calatrava. It stands at 623 feet and has 54 floors, comprising of offices and 149 private apartments. At a total cost of $220 million, the Turning Torso is the tallest building in Scandinavia and 1)uber-architect Calatrava’s first skyscraper.
Scandinavia is well known for its designer furniture, but certainly not for its skyscrapers. In fact, this is pretty much the only one. There is something amazingly 2)incongruous about this tall, thin tower rising sharply above its 3)sedate suburban surroundings. It not only looks nothing like the buildings around it, but it was also constructed and engineered in a completely different way.
This is basically how the Turning Torso works. 4)Effectively, it has a very strong core 5)column of concrete that runs up through the middle of the building. Now, this is fairly standard for a skyscraper. And what you then do is, around that, put nine cubes of five floors 6)stacked up on this tower. But they did two things that made the structure on this building very complex. The first, was to put a gap between each of these floor cubes. And that means that, effectively, every single one of these cubes has to be self-supporting and all the loads have to go back onto the central spine. So you have to massively increase the amount of 7)reinforcing and the strength of the concrete in each of those floors.
And then they did a second thing to make it really hard to build. They twisted it. So, by breaking it into the nine cubes, you had to take all the load back down the central 8)shaft, and, by twisting the building, it was incredibly difficult to get any of the pieces up into position. So, fundamentally, from day one they had created something that was always going to be a nightmare to build.
That’s no surprise because the Turning Torso started out life as a six-foot high abstract sculpture created by Santiago Calatrava. It’s typical of much of Calatrava’s work, combining organic, natural shapes with 9)state-of-the-art engineering.
When you get inside you really start to understand how the building’s structure work; central core with the floor plates 10)jutting out. Due to the twist in the building, no floor sits square on top of another. The floor plan of each level is unique. Feels like a cross between a spaceship and a lighthouse.
It’s just as exciting being inside this building as being outside looking at it. The apartments have strange 11)slanting windows, 12)curving walls and odd-shaped spaces. There are practically no straight lines anywhere. Everything seems to have a touch of the 13)unconventional about it. The incredible views all around are a 14)reminder of just how the building completely dominates its surroundings.
Santiago Calatrava has rightly received many 15)plaudits for his design of the Turning Torso, including an award for best skyscraper of the year. But perhaps just as important as the genius of the architect is the vision and determination of the Swedish developers that helped turn a small sculpture into a16)groundbreaking building. In just a few years this building has achieved 17)iconic status. Just as Paris has its Eiffel Tower, Malmo now has its Turning Torso.
What was once a depressed and rundown industrial area has become a 21st century urban 18)utopia, where bright young things live and work in stylish homes and offices; the Scandinavian dream made real. And above it all rises their symbol for the future.
旋转中心花了四年时间兴建，于2005年落成，由圣地亚戈·卡拉特拉瓦设计，高623英尺，共54层，有办公室和149间公寓，耗资两亿两千万美元。旋转中心是斯堪的纳维亚的最高建筑，也是出自顶尖建筑家卡拉特拉瓦之手的首幢摩天大楼。
斯堪的纳维亚闻名于世的是它的名牌家具，而绝不是摩天大楼。事实上，这也是当地唯一的一幢。这座又高又细的大楼，从宁静的近郊地区拔地而起，跟环境实在是格格不入，实在令人诧异。它不仅外表看起来跟周遭的建筑物截然不同，更以完全不同的方法设计建造。
旋转中心的原理是这样的：它有一根很坚固的，贯穿建筑物中心的混凝土柱子，这是摩天大楼的标准设计；然后把九个各有五层楼层的建筑方块；交叠起来。但是他们做了两个设计令这幢建筑的结构变得非常复杂。第一个是隔开每个方块，这就意味着，每个方块必须能自我支撑，所有重量要传回到中央脊柱去。那就要大量增加加固结构和每层混凝土的承受力。
然后他们还做了第二项设计令施工更困难，就是扭转方块。这样，分成九块方块，那重量就要回到中轴；而扭转建筑物，则很难令这些方块整齐了。所以，可以说，打从第一天起，这幢建筑的施工就是个恶梦。
也难怪，旋转中心一开始只不过是卡拉特拉瓦设计的一座六英尺高的抽象雕塑。这是典型的卡拉特拉瓦作品，它巧妙地把自然有机形态跟尖端科技工程结合了起来。
进去后才真正明白到大楼的结构：大楼的核心与延伸的地板相连。由于大楼是扭曲的，所以没有楼层是完全重叠的。每一层的布局都不同。感觉就像是个太空船和灯塔的混合体。
身处内部跟站在外面观看这样的建筑一样令人兴奋。公寓有着奇特的斜玻璃窗，还有弯弯曲曲的墙壁，以及奇形怪状的空间。各处根本没有直线，一切都带有反传统的意味。俯瞰四周的迷人景致，让人想到这个建筑物是怎样凌驾于周遭的环境之上的。
卡拉特拉瓦因旋转中心的设计而倍受赞赏，包括年度最佳摩天大楼奖。但或许跟建筑师的才能一样重要的是，瑞典发展商有远见和决心，把一个小雕塑变成一座突破性建筑。短短几年，这个建筑已成为了象征性建筑物，正如巴黎拥有艾菲尔铁塔一样，（瑞典的）马尔摩市现在有旋转中心。
这个曾经是没生气又颓败的工业区，已变成21世纪的城市乌托邦，年轻才俊们在有品位的家居和办公室里生活和工作。斯堪的纳维亚之梦成真了。而最重要的是，这象征着其未来的崛起。
翻译：moon cake
Completed in 2005 after a four-year build, the Turning Torso was designed by Santiago Calatrava. It stands at 623 feet and has 54 floors, comprising of offices and 149 private apartments. At a total cost of $220 million, the Turning Torso is the tallest building in Scandinavia and 1)uber-architect Calatrava’s first skyscraper.
Scandinavia is well known for its designer furniture, but certainly not for its skyscrapers. In fact, this is pretty much the only one. There is something amazingly 2)incongruous about this tall, thin tower rising sharply above its 3)sedate suburban surroundings. It not only looks nothing like the buildings around it, but it was also constructed and engineered in a completely different way.
This is basically how the Turning Torso works. 4)Effectively, it has a very strong core 5)column of concrete that runs up through the middle of the building. Now, this is fairly standard for a skyscraper. And what you then do is, around that, put nine cubes of five floors 6)stacked up on this tower. But they did two things that made the structure on this building very complex. The first, was to put a gap between each of these floor cubes. And that means that, effectively, every single one of these cubes has to be self-supporting and all the loads have to go back onto the central spine. So you have to massively increase the amount of 7)reinforcing and the strength of the concrete in each of those floors.
And then they did a second thing to make it really hard to build. They twisted it. So, by breaking it into the nine cubes, you had to take all the load back down the central 8)shaft, and, by twisting the building, it was incredibly difficult to get any of the pieces up into position. So, fundamentally, from day one they had created something that was always going to be a nightmare to build.
That’s no surprise because the Turning Torso started out life as a six-foot high abstract sculpture created by Santiago Calatrava. It’s typical of much of Calatrava’s work, combining organic, natural shapes with 9)state-of-the-art engineering.
When you get inside you really start to understand how the building’s structure work; central core with the floor plates 10)jutting out. Due to the twist in the building, no floor sits square on top of another. The floor plan of each level is unique. Feels like a cross between a spaceship and a lighthouse.
It’s just as exciting being inside this building as being outside looking at it. The apartments have strange 11)slanting windows, 12)curving walls and odd-shaped spaces. There are practically no straight lines anywhere. Everything seems to have a touch of the 13)unconventional about it. The incredible views all around are a 14)reminder of just how the building completely dominates its surroundings.
Santiago Calatrava has rightly received many 15)plaudits for his design of the Turning Torso, including an award for best skyscraper of the year. But perhaps just as important as the genius of the architect is the vision and determination of the Swedish developers that helped turn a small sculpture into a16)groundbreaking building. In just a few years this building has achieved 17)iconic status. Just as Paris has its Eiffel Tower, Malmo now has its Turning Torso.
What was once a depressed and rundown industrial area has become a 21st century urban 18)utopia, where bright young things live and work in stylish homes and offices; the Scandinavian dream made real. And above it all rises their symbol for the future.
旋转中心花了四年时间兴建，于2005年落成，由圣地亚戈·卡拉特拉瓦设计，高623英尺，共54层，有办公室和149间公寓，耗资两亿两千万美元。旋转中心是斯堪的纳维亚的最高建筑，也是出自顶尖建筑家卡拉特拉瓦之手的首幢摩天大楼。
斯堪的纳维亚闻名于世的是它的名牌家具，而绝不是摩天大楼。事实上，这也是当地唯一的一幢。这座又高又细的大楼，从宁静的近郊地区拔地而起，跟环境实在是格格不入，实在令人诧异。它不仅外表看起来跟周遭的建筑物截然不同，更以完全不同的方法设计建造。
旋转中心的原理是这样的：它有一根很坚固的，贯穿建筑物中心的混凝土柱子，这是摩天大楼的标准设计；然后把九个各有五层楼层的建筑方块；交叠起来。但是他们做了两个设计令这幢建筑的结构变得非常复杂。第一个是隔开每个方块，这就意味着，每个方块必须能自我支撑，所有重量要传回到中央脊柱去。那就要大量增加加固结构和每层混凝土的承受力。
然后他们还做了第二项设计令施工更困难，就是扭转方块。这样，分成九块方块，那重量就要回到中轴；而扭转建筑物，则很难令这些方块整齐了。所以，可以说，打从第一天起，这幢建筑的施工就是个恶梦。
也难怪，旋转中心一开始只不过是卡拉特拉瓦设计的一座六英尺高的抽象雕塑。这是典型的卡拉特拉瓦作品，它巧妙地把自然有机形态跟尖端科技工程结合了起来。
进去后才真正明白到大楼的结构：大楼的核心与延伸的地板相连。由于大楼是扭曲的，所以没有楼层是完全重叠的。每一层的布局都不同。感觉就像是个太空船和灯塔的混合体。
身处内部跟站在外面观看这样的建筑一样令人兴奋。公寓有着奇特的斜玻璃窗，还有弯弯曲曲的墙壁，以及奇形怪状的空间。各处根本没有直线，一切都带有反传统的意味。俯瞰四周的迷人景致，让人想到这个建筑物是怎样凌驾于周遭的环境之上的。
卡拉特拉瓦因旋转中心的设计而倍受赞赏，包括年度最佳摩天大楼奖。但或许跟建筑师的才能一样重要的是，瑞典发展商有远见和决心，把一个小雕塑变成一座突破性建筑。短短几年，这个建筑已成为了象征性建筑物，正如巴黎拥有艾菲尔铁塔一样，（瑞典的）马尔摩市现在有旋转中心。
这个曾经是没生气又颓败的工业区，已变成21世纪的城市乌托邦，年轻才俊们在有品位的家居和办公室里生活和工作。斯堪的纳维亚之梦成真了。而最重要的是，这象征着其未来的崛起。
翻译：moon cake