ListenThe Biomedical Centre was built in the late 1960s and finished 1985. The goal was to construct buildings with unique possibilities for adaptability to the specific field of activities and for continuous adjustment of the laboratories. The original building was adapted to laboratories designed by the practitioners. The interior is strictly standardized and movable in its entirety. In most cases, the department staff is able to move walls and make other changes to the interior. Architect Paul Hedqvist, who was a famous designer of many other buildings in the Swedish functionalistic style, designed the Biomedical Centre. Together with professor Karl Johan Öbrink, Hedqvist designed the flexible interior of the laboratories, which has become a model for later construction of laboratories both in Sweden and abroad.
In 1998, the Biomedical Centre was reconstructed in order to make room for the transfer of a number of chemistry departments from the faculty of Science and Technology to BMC. An additional purpose was to provide new and joint premises for the larger departments within the different faculties. The new arrangements resulted in a better, more efficient use of the facilities and the reconstruction also included an improved ventilation system. An additional building containing a library, media services and a restaurant were built. Furthermore, a new corridor was constructed, which runs through the entire length of the BMC on the third floor. The architect Mats Edblom and his co-workers at Ahlgren Edblom Architecture in Stockholm designed the new buildings.
