Biomedicum, Karolinska Institutet. C.F. Møller. Photo: Mark Hadden

Biomedicum, Karolinska Institutet

The new laboratory building, Biomedicum, is to be the powerhouse for research at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, one of the world's leading medical universities, known amongst other things for selecting the recipients of the Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology.
 Biomedicum, Karolinska Institutet. C.F. Møller. Photo: Mark Hadden
Facts

Client

Akademiska Hus (client), Karolinska Institutet (tenant)

Address

Stockholm, Sweden

Size

65,000 m²

Year

2010-2018

Competition

1st. Prize in invited competition. 2010

Construction

Skanska

Architect

C.F. Møller Architects

Landscape

Landskapslaget AB

Collaborators, other

Interior: Nyréns Arkitektkontor, Beräkningskonsulterna AB, Svensk Låsprojektering AB

Awards
  • Nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award. 2021
  • Building Better Healthcare Awards, Highly Commended. 2020
  • MIPIM Award - Best healthcare development. 2020
  • Architecture MasterPrize - Healthcare Architecture. 2019
  • CODAawards, Healthcare Winner. 2019
  • Årets Bygge (Building of the Year) - Sweden. 2019
  • Honorable Mention, Glaspriset (The Swedish Federation of Glazing Contractors). 2018
  • 1st. Prize in invited competition. 2010
  • International Space Design Award—Idea-Tops Nomination Award, Public Architecture Design

Previously, the research environments of the Karolinska Institutet were scattered throughout the campus - a green park area with red brick buildings dating from the 1930s. With Biomedicum, the Karolinska Institutet will gain a single unifying environment for future research, with ultra-flexibly equipped laboratories and office facilities that will act as a catalyst for cross-cutting collaboration between the various research and study environments.

The new construction is not only intended to provide a building in the campus park, but also to accommodate the park within the building. With a glass-covered green atrium, the outdoor campus area is continued through the building, thereby reinforcing the social qualities of the green campus to the benefit of knowledge-sharing and interdisciplinarity.

The building''s openness, created amongst other things by way of a transparent, inviting ground floor with access to the atrium as well as a café and public exhibition space, also forms new linkages through the park, and thereby opens up the Karolinska Institutet both towards the city and towards the planned new university hospital, Nya Karolinska Solna (NKS), which will be directly adjacent.

Biomedicum will thus become a pivotal point in the area - a distinctive icon for the world-class research for which the Karolinska Institutet is known.

 

Biomedicum, Karolinska Institutet - Booklet  

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