Swedish court blocks Chipperfield's £100m Nobel Centre

By 2018-05-23T09:43:00

David Chipperfield Architects - Nobel Centre, Stockholm - model

Source: Anders J Larsson

Client ‘confident of ultimate victory’

A Swedish court has blocked David Chipperfield’s Nobel Centre over fears its scale would damage a historically sensitive area of Stockholm.

The £100m building, planned for a waterfront site near the royal palace in Blasieholmen, has proved controversial locally but appeared to have cleared all its planning hurdles last year.

Now Sweden’s Land and Environment Court has revoked the detailed local plan for the centre.

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