Berlin architects give Nobel Foundation a home in over 100 years

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Photo: Berlin architects give Nobel Foundation a home in over 100 years The Nobel Foundation unveiled on Wednesday, the winning design for a building that will give the world's most prestigious prize a home for the first time in its 100-plus-year history. The Foundation hopes to inaugurate the 25,000-square-metre building in 2018, when it is expected to house nearly all its activities, including the Nobel Prize ceremony and the Nobel museum. Nobel Foundation executive director Lars Heikensten said at a press conferencein Stockholm that the winner of the architecture competition of the Nobel Centre is David Chipperfield Architects in Berlin. He said,the Nobel Centre, with a 184 million US dollar budget, will be built in a historic district, surrounded by water and near some of the city's main museums and landmarks.
The Nobel Foundation unveiled on Wednesday, the winning design for a building that will give the world's most prestigious prize a home for the first time in its 100-plus-year history.

The Foundation hopes to inaugurate the 25,000-square-metre building in 2018, when it is expected to house nearly all its activities, including the Nobel Prize ceremony and the Nobel museum.
Nobel Foundation executive director Lars Heikensten said at a press conferencein Stockholm that the winner of the architecture competition of the Nobel Centre is David Chipperfield Architects in Berlin.
He said,the Nobel Centre, with a 184 million US dollar budget, will be built in a historic district, surrounded by water and near some of the city's main museums and landmarks.

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