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Until mid-December, the so-called Tornet building profile at Malmö’s major urban development project, Culture Casbah in Rosengård, was just a memory.
The ambition for Rosengård and Malmö had diminished. In a press release with the city of Malmö as the sender on December 12, Tornet was not mentioned at all and the image illustrating the new gentrified center of the future in Rosengård showed a park-like exuberance with three-story wooden houses . The spectacular glass and green tower was impressed.
And when Rosengård Fastigheter, the real estate company owned by three private owners and EIA, sent out its own press release the next day, Tornet was not mentioned at all.
Instead, the “seven attractions” listed as Culture Casbah’s new forts were listed, including the entrance to the station square, “Stråket”, which will link East and West with restaurants and shops, a new “multiple house” in Örtagårdstorget that will act as a meeting place for culture. and sports, the Rosenparken, and new housing types that will allow housing careers in a neighborhood with a reputation filled with shame.
The next day, Sydsvenskan was able to wire that “Rosengårdsrape scrap metal is scrapped: Culture Casbah gets a new design.” Both the Tower and its winning architectural proposals by Lundgaard and Tranberg Architects were added to the documents.
“But any type of profile construction that stands out will at least be, but exactly as it will be seen, we will see a little later,” Sofía Hedén (S), president of the city’s construction committee, told the newspaper.
Kvällsposten’s leading page has long advocated for Tornet as a destiny question for Malmö’s future, and for all other Swedish municipalities seeking answers on how so-called extra-curricular areas can be lifted. What city, apart from Malmö, would have originally had the idea to place a spectacular building in profile with bold and distinctive architecture in a neighborhood with the socio-economic makeup of Rosengård? But by deviating from his visionary ambition to build what would in practice be Malmö’s new Turning Torso, Rosengård was abandoned. Mainly, the Social Democrats sent the message that they could not cope with any vision.
But now, unexpectedly, it has changed.
Suddenly, the Tower has returned like a Phoenix Bird from the ashes of visionlessness. Regardless, it will be a tower, although not exactly the previously announced tower. The framework land use agreement covering 15,000 square meters of the area around the Bennet highway mentions a guarantee that there will be “a tallest tower in the area.”
In southern Sweden, local council president Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh (S) says:
– It is clear that there is a commitment to build a tall tower. We have ensured that there are no reductions in ambition.
The opposition council of the moderates, Torbjörn Tegnhammar (M), commented in the same article (8/5) on the meaning of Culture Casbah:
– Rosengård, as a district, has become a symbol of exclusion for Malmös and Sweden. So it becomes symbolically important if you can transform Rosengård into a vibrant neighborhood with attractive homes and workplaces.
The fact that Culture Casbah is now recovering a high-profile building is excellent. The next step for Malmö is to set up the city’s future art museum in Rosengård and to raise ambition with Nyhamnen and to plan at least one new high-profile building. Why not reuse the Tower at Nyhamnen?
Csaba Bene Perlenberg is a freelance columnist on the Kvällsposten editorial page.
