The symposium takes place at The Nobel Forum, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Visiting address: Nobels väg 1, KI Campus Solna, Karolinska Institutet. KI-map
Find your way by public transport; SL.

With the Nobel Forum, an old vision has achieved concrete expression in a new building designed primarily for the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute. Here the Nobel Committee announces the year's Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, and here the Nobel Secretariat carries on its daily work. With the Nobel Forum, the Karolinska Institute has also gained a meeting place for scientists from all over the world.

A feature of this Karolinska building is the apparently free sitting of the various blocks in the hilly landscape on the "house-in-a-park" principle. The design commission was awarded in the 1980s to the architect Johan Celsing, and in the summer of 1993 the building was finished.

The use of brick for the exterior was decided early, though brick is most often used today as cladding and so it was not taken for granted that it would also constitute the bearing shell of the building. That it does so reflects the wish for accord between construction and design.