General information
The Arrhenius laboratories were designed by Carl Nyrén and were completed and inaugurated in 1973. It is named in memory of the Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate Svante Arrhenius, who received a prize in chemistry in 1903. The building was originally intended for the activities of the Department of Chemistry and is today considered one of the most successful examples on a structuralist building. The building as a whole consists of four relatively narrow building bodies that have been joined together so that an elongated, fully enclosed courtyard in the north-south direction is formed.