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NOBIS HOTEL 

Nobis Hotel is designed in a style of timeless contemporary elegance by renowned architect and design studio Claesson Koivisto Rune. The new design interacts and contrasts effectfully with the buildings’ magnificent, culturally protected late 19th century original interiors. Both of our buildings are superior examples of Stockholm’s unique, lavishly decorated bourgeoisie stone architecture, and both brim with Stockholmian history.

Norrmalmstorg

Up until the mid 19th century, Norrmalmstorg square was known as “Packhustorget” (“The Packing House Square”), a rough and smelly place next to a swamp, named Katthavet (“The Cat Sea”), where fishermen came to sell their daily catch and where criminals and other unfortunates were punished in public. Around the middle of the century, the Katthavet swamp was filled in and the adjacent Berzelii Park created. In the new city plan of 1866, designed by Albert Lindhagen, “The Haussmann of Stockholm”, the square was renamed Norrmalmstorg and turned into Stockholm’s most elegant and representative focal point, forming a grandiose axis together with the shopping boulevard Hamngatan, which branches off Norrmalmstorg, nearby Nybroplan, in front of the Royal Dramatic Theatre, and the splendid Strandvägen seafront esplanade, Stockholm’s most prestigious address.

The Nobis Hotel buildings are also the site of a dramatic attempted bank heist and the origins of a psychological phenomenon dubbed ‘Stockholm Syndrome.’ In 1973 bank robbers held four employees of the Kreditbanken hostage in the bank’s vault, which is now part of the ACNE store at Nobis Hotel. During the six days of their captivity, the hostages gained sympathy for and even loyalty to their captors. This unusual development in hostage situations has been referred to as the ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ ever since.

Grouped around Norrmalmstorg are Stockholm’s most famous and historic shops, restaurants, theaters, auction houses, museums, galleries, business headquarters and cultural attractions. In the classic Swedish version of the Monopoly game, Norrmalmstorg is the most expensive spot (and you know what happens when you build a hotel on that spot…)