Facts

Population

9,408,028

Area

438,574 km² • 169,333 mi²

Density

21.5 people per km²

55.6 people per mi²

First 150m+ Building

Tallest Building

Tallest City

Rankings

by no. of 150m+ completed buildings

#
48

Tallest City in

the World

#
11

Tallest City in

Europe

Buildings

RANK
Name
Status

Completed

Architecturally Topped Out

Structurally Topped Out

Under Construction

On Hold

Proposed

Vision

Never Completed

Demolished

Competition Entry

Canceled

Proposed Renovation

Under Renovation

Renovated

Under Demolition

Height
1 Karlatornet
245 m / 804  ft
2 Turning Torso
190 m / 623  ft
3 Kista Science Tower
124 m / 407  ft
4 Innovationen
121.1 m / 397  ft
5 Victoria Tower
117.6 m / 386  ft
6 Kista Torn
111.7 m / 366  ft
7 Point Hyllie
110 m / 361  ft
8 Helix
104 m / 341  ft
9 Gothia New Tower
100 m / 328  ft
10 Malmö Live
87.4 m / 287  ft

CTBUH People & Events

Pierre Palmberg

Treasurer

Pierre Palmberg

COWI

CTBUH Scandinavia Future Leaders Committee Presents: Tall Timber: The Sustainable High Rise

13 February 2020

Tall Timber: A Global Audit

26 June 2017

Videos

18 October 2016

What’s Next?: How Do We Make Vertical Urban Design?

It seems sometimes as if the further away from the ground we rise, the more architectonic and less urban our buildings become. Skyscrapers have always...

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Research

30 October 2017

Rethinking CTBUH Height Criteria In the Context of Tall Timber

Recent developments in the design and construction of progressively taller buildings using engineered timber as a structural material raise important questions about the language that...

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Global News

04 May 2020

Sculptural Wooden Crown Proposed for Göteborg Skyline

Danish architecture studio Dorte Mandrup together with Bisgaard Landscape and Rambøll have won an international competition to design a new mixed-use project on the Banks...

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