A toy building element with coupling studs (6) and/or coupling skirts (7) that are complementary therewith for being interconnected with other toy building elements provided with corresponding coupling studs and/or coupling skirts, said interconnection taking place in an axial direction of the coupling studs and/or the coupling skirts. The toy building element comprises a top element (1) and a bottom element (2) that can be interconnected by means of coupling means that are releasable exclusively by rotation about an axis (A) in parallel with the axial direction of the coupling studs (6) and/or the coupling skirts (7). Besides, the toy building comprises at least one intermediate element (8), said top element (1) being interconnectable with an upper end of the intermediate element (8), while the bottom element (2) can be interconnected with a lower end of the intermediate element (8).