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Fully confirmed that SKH will move to Slakthusområdet
2025-01-16

Fully confirmed that SKH will move to Slakthusområdet

SKH is moving in its entirety to a new purpose-built building in Slakthusområdet in Stockholm in 2030. This was confirmed this week when the detailed zoning plan for the building became legally binding.
A building by a square in the evening with lots of people moving around.
The new SKH building, seen from Evenemangstorget. Visualisation: 3XN Architects

Slakthusområdet is one of Stockholm's most high-profile urban development areas, built from the ground up based on the idea that culture is an important driving force in long-term community building. SKH's central goal is to be part of that process, promoting participation and acting as a dynamic, challenging and independent force in society.

The new building will be a democratic meeting place for Slakthusområdet, and an arena for international and intercultural collaboration that will attract artists and researchers from all over the world to the neighbourhood and to Stockholm. The public is invited to around 400 events each year in which everyone is welcome to participate.

“We want to welcome Stockholmers to engage with our innovative artistic expressions and meet our students and researchers,” says Ellen Røed, Vice-Chancellor of SKH. “SKH must be an active social actor, using the tools of art to reflect, challenge and help shape society, not only in Slakthusområdet, but throughout Stockholm and around the world.”

The building creates a coherent and interdisciplinary environment for education and research, where artistic encounters can challenge traditions and shape new realities. It provides a solid infrastructure for the entire university, with two large theatres, two cinemas, film studios, and a Circus Hall with a 13-metre ceiling height.

“In the new building, students and researchers have the conditions for an artistic practice that can develop new cultural expressions, techniques and encounters that cut across existing fields of knowledge,” says Ellen Røed. “We don't know what the art of the future will look like, but the building provides the conditions for it to develop in the best way possible.”

The building is to be constructed by property developer Atrium Ljungberg and is designed by the architectural firm 3XN, which won the architectural competition for the new building in 2022 with the proposal To see and be seen. With the government's approval, SKH has signed a 20-year lease.

“This is a milestone, not only for the Stockholm University of the Arts, but for the entirety Slakthusområdet,” says Annica Ånäs, Atrium Ljungberg’s CEO. “This district is undergoing a transformation, one in which all forms of cultural experiences are an important part. Stockholm University of the Arts will definitely add another dimension to Slakthusområdet, not least considering the public events they arrange each year.”

In December 2024, the City Council decided to approve the detailed zoning plan for the area, a decision that now in January 2025 has become legally binding. Construction is scheduled to start in spring 2026, with occupancy in summer 2030.

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