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Rural hospital in Bangladesh named world’s best building by RIBA

January 25, 2022 Lizzie Crook 0
Brick hospital building in Bangladesh

The Friendship Hospital in Bangladesh by local architecture studio Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA has been awarded the RIBA International Prize 2021. The hospital is the latest winner of the RIBA International Prize, which is awarded biennially to a project “that demonstrates design excellence and social impact”. The Friendship Hospital is a low-cost and remote medical institution in Bengal, southwest

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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
The hospital is located in Pennsylvania

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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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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Projects Office designs non-institutional interior for mental health facility in Edinburgh

August 22, 2021 Amy Frearson 0
Orange lighthouse interior at CAMHS Edinburgh by Projects Office

London studio Projects Office has used seaside-inspired colours and imagery to create a comfortable but practical interior for a mental health unit at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh. The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) facility is designed to feel non-institutional, so as to make patients feel at ease,

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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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“Hospitals in drastic, drastic need of innovation” says Reinier de Graaf

March 3, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0
OMA hospital of the future

Dutch architecture studio OMA has produced a film exploring hospital design as part of its research into its first hospital buildings. Partner at the studio Reinier de Graaf tells Dezeen how he envisions the hospital of the future. OMA has been commissioned to build hospitals in France and Qatar, despite having no experience in designing medical buildings. This demonstrates that hospital

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Drive-through clinics in hospital car parks could be used for “accelerated vaccine roll-out” says NBBJ

December 14, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0
In Car Care drive-through clinic concept by NBBJ

Hospital patients could be treated in prefabricated drive-through clinics without leaving their cars, according to a concept by architect NBBJ. The clinics could also be used to administer coronavirus vaccinations, according to the architects. The prefabricated units “could be especially effective for accelerated vaccine roll-out, as it enables simultaneous distribution to every passenger in the

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Foster + Partners’ Cairo hospital embodies “latest research on biophilia”

September 14, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0
Exterior render of Magdi Yacoub Global Heart Centre Cairo

Foster + Partners has revealed visuals of the Magdi Yacoub Global Heart Centre Cairo hospital in Egypt that will prioritise connecting patients with nature to boost their wellbeing. Now under construction in Cairo, the 300-bed hospital will have a shell-like roofscape and nestle within a “lush, verdant landscape” that offers views of a lake and

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Integrated Field decorates children’s hospital in Thailand with slides and a pool

September 13, 2020 India Block 0
Blue indoor swimming pool with arches and clouds in children's hospital designed by Integrated Field

Design studio Integrated Field has created colourful arched interiors filled with animals and clouds to provide an enjoyable experience for children at a hospital in Samut Sakhon, Thailand. Playful touches in EKH Children’s Hospital include a bright yellow slide that spirals through the reception and animal shapes above hospital beds and light-up constellations that act

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