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Malmo Live Building
Concert, Congress and Hotel Complex in Sweden ? design by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects
17 Nov 2016
Malmo Live in Stockholm
Design: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects
Location: Dag Hammarskjölds torg 4, Malmö, Sweden
Malmö Live wins World’s best Mixed-use project at the World Architecture Festival 2016

Tuesday 16 November 2016, the Malmö Live complex in Southern Sweden, designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, was announced winner of the Mixed-use Completed Buildings category at the 2016 World Architectural Festival in Berlin. Since its opening in Spring 2015, Malmö Live has become a popular cultural meeting place and landmark in the city of Malmö, offering a setting in which the spirit of the city, its diversity and intimacy receive an architectonic expression.
Schmidt Hammer Lassen in team with Skanska Sweden, Nordic Choice Hotels, Akustikon and SLA won the 54,000m2 Malmö Live project in 2010. The project combines three separate typologies; hotel, congress centre and concert hall into one multifaceted entity, enabling the building to adapt to many different functions and activities. The project challenges the traditional understanding of what is considered private-public.

The international jury commented: “Malmö Live comprises a concert hall, convention centre and hotel, and was built in a public-private partnership. It’s a public building in ...