Health

Herzog & de Meuron unveils plectrum-shaped AstraZeneca research centre

December 10, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0

Disc-shaped glass research centre for AstraZeneca

Swiss studio Herzog & de Meuron has completed The Discovery Centre, a glass-clad facility for research and development designed for pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca in Cambridge. The research centre, which is shaped like a triangular guitar plectrum and features a sawtooth-shaped roof, is located in the middle of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus and was designed in

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Matteo Thun creates new wing with “hotel-like” patient rooms for Waldkliniken Eisenberg hospital

November 18, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0

Waldkliniken Eisenberg by Matteo Thun has a cylindrical design

Milan-based design studio Matteo Thun & Partners borrowed from its experience working on hospitality interiors when designing this hospital building in Eisenberg, Germany. In 2013, the studio headed by Italian designer Matteo Thun and Spaniard Antonio Rodriguez won an international competition to design a new hospital wing for Germany’s largest orthopaedics centre, the Waldkliniken Eisenberg.

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Foster + Partners completes hospital with striped facade for University of Pennsylvania

November 11, 2021 James Parkes 0

Architecture firm Foster + Partners has designed an inpatient facility for the University of Pennsylvania Health System, which is intended to serve as an example of a “hospital of the future”. Located in the University City district of West Philadelphia, the facility was built beside the University of Pennsylvania and a collection of hospital buildings

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Steven Holl completes “energetic and open” Cofco Cultural and Health Center in Shanghai

October 29, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0

Cofco Cultural and Health Center exterior view

Steven Holl Architects has completed a cultural and health centre in Shanghai, comprising a pair of concrete buildings punctured by irregular openings that are set within a landscaped park. The firm headed by architect Steven Holl designed the Cofco Cultural and Health Center in 2016 for a site next to the Punan Canal in Shanghai’s

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Steel mesh wraps Nike’s LeBron James Innovation Center by Olson Kundig

October 8, 2021 Jenna McKnight 0

A full-size basketball court and a 200-metre track are among the spaces found inside a large, metal-clad building designed by US firm Olson Kundig on the Nike campus in Oregon. The LeBron James Innovation Center is part of the 300-acre (121-hectare) Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. The new facility is named after the basketball

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Psychologists office and tranquil garden hidden behind concrete wall in Uruguay

September 6, 2021 James Brillon 0

Psychologist's office Pedro Livni Rafael Solano

Architects Pedro Livni and Rafael Solano have created a psychologist’s office behind a tall concrete wall in Ciudad de la Costa, Uruguay. Located within the garden of an existing property, the low-slung structure encompasses 35 square metres and is hidden by a wall that runs its full width. Only a door and a circular aperture,

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Adjaye Associates designing 101 hospitals “to transform Ghana’s medical system”

August 23, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Agenda 111 hospitals by Adjaye Associates in Ghana

Architecture studio Adjaye Associates is designing over 100 hospitals for sites across Ghana as part of the country’s Agenda 111 program. The studio, which is led by British-Ghanian architect David Adjaye, will design the facilities as part of an overhaul of the country’s healthcare system that will see 111 hospitals built. “The District Hospitals presents an opportunity

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Mirrored cladding reflects gardens surrounding Maggie’s Southampton by Amanda Levete

July 2, 2021 Lizzie Crook 0

A mirrored pavilion surrounded by gardens

The indoors are “in permanent dialogue with the garden” at the latest Maggie’s Centre for cancer care, completed by Amanda Levete’s studio AL_A. Maggie’s Southampton is a low-lying pavilion hidden within Southampton General Hospital’s car park by a verdant garden that covers three-quarters of the centre’s plot. It was designed by AL_A with Sarah Price Landscapes

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Ten architecture projects from students at the Academy of Art University

June 18, 2021 Dezeen staff 0

An aquarium designed to protect marine biodiversity and a healing centre using horticultural techniques to help treat mental illness are included in our latest school show by architecture students at the Academy of Art University. Other projects include a “public living room” that blends neighbourhood life with areas for privacy and a residential hub designed to enable

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Manuel Herz encloses curvilinear hospital in Senegal with lattice brickwork

May 6, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Maternity and Paediatric Hospital in Tambacounda, Senegal, by Manuel Herz

Swiss studio Manuel Herz Architects has unveiled the curvilinear Maternity and Paediatric Hospital in Tambacounda, Senegal, which is defined by its lattice-like brickwork. Built as an extension to a hospital in the town of Tambacounda in eastern Senegal, the building, commissioned by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and local charity Le Korsa, contains paediatrics and maternity clinics.

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