PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS - Healthcare

Today, the medical beauty market in China has reached the fastest growth rate in the world. CAA architects intends to redefine the industry standards of the medical beauty field by Joan Clinic’s design, and reshape people’s recognition that the medical beauty industry should respect life, pursue nature and advocate art. The project continues the concept of CAA interior ...

Henceforth, patients needing psychiatric care at Bispebjerg will be greeted by bright and open settings, tailored to ensure a good level of care, while providing a safe environment for patients, relatives and employees. The state-of-the-art building, which houses the emergency department, four wards, an ECT clinic and administration offices, has been designed with the pa...

Designed by Hassell and McBride Charles Ryan, the masterplan will see the redevelopment and expansion of the Royal Melbourne and Royal Women’s hospitals in Parkville alongside the creation of a new biomedical precinct in nearby Arden. The premier revealed that the medical precinct will be built next to the new Arden train station, with the Parkville and Arden precincts ...

Named Hub of Huts, the 460-square-metre building was designed as an extension to the Hotel Hubertus in South Tyrol, which is known with its iconic cantilever pool, designed by the same studio in 2016. Through its new suspended platform, it defies gravity law by overturning the concept of this wellness center. In 2019, the studio was tasked with a new assignment to crea...

The resulting space is a unique accommodation facility meant to house zazen (sitting meditation) practices amongst other adjacent functions. In fact, the design is reflective of many of the requirements and ideals of the meditative practice. Besides its remote location which would allow for a calm environment, the layout conveys an extensive and elongated space (up to 90...

The concept derives from the complexity of sea waves and the local vernacular of carved ornamental detailing on facade elements. Drawing from this, the architects created a site concept composed of five inter-related buildings, reminiscent of waves. Wave One, the first to be built after a lengthy design and construction process, encompasses specialized medical laboratori...

FlySolo The FlySolo Rehabilitation Medical Centre will provide children between the ages of 0-13 with comprehensive rehabilitation services, treating speech, language, cognitive, motor, sensory, social and emotional developmental disorders. Located near the heart of Beijing’s CBD, FlySolo seeks to empower the extraordinary and support children of all abilities through th...

Within the Paris 7th arrondissement conservation area, the project is the heritage rehabilitation of a listed former horticultural greenhouse and its conversion into a hospitality room. Located within the private garden of the Clinique Saint Jean de Dieu, the greenhouse enjoys a privileged landscaped environment appreciated by its users. Built in the 18th century to cu...

The facility, designed by Henning Larsen and COBE architects, required a robust steel structure to cope with complex operational requirements and maximize flexibility during its use. Taking this into account, Buro Happold’s team of specialist engineers developed a unique structural design with large open spans to cover the Target building and associated Experimental Hall...

Yamazaki Kentaro has designed a hospice facility in Japan that blends seamlessly with the natural surroundings. The newly unveiled establishment plays an intermediate role between a home and a hospital, providing palliative care for terminally-ill cancer patients. The design seeks to generate a warm environment with a quotidian atmosphere, rather than a typically cold ho...

In many cities hundreds of Covid-19 caring healthcare workers are sleeping in their cars or other precarious facilities after finishing their shifts, trying to avoid going home or taking public transportation and exposing their families and communities to contagion. Revolution has designed a module built from prefabricated pieces of wood and biodegradable plastic that ...

It is more than a mere hospital: the first architectural work in Africa designed by RPBW is a sign of extreme symbolic importance for the promotion of health care and culture in Uganda and in entire Africa. The building will follow the curves that slope down to the lake. By following the course of the land, the hospital walls and the boundaries of its outdoor pathways w...

In 2012, Hospital Nova became a real project with JKMM selected as architects. Construction began in 2016 and was completed in 2020. Patients were admitted this year. What is unique about Hospital Nova is that, in terms of both functional concept and building type, it has been designed entirely from first principles. The first new-build general hospital to open in Finlan...

The new building responded to a need for the consolidation of allied health functions for the small town of 2000. It was hoped that the new centre would provide an environment that the public can attend as they would a public gallery, encouraging residents to enjoy a healthy lifestyle and get on top of issues before they develop into chronic health problems – including a...

Its hyper-modern glass exterior epitomizes the core philosophy of using architecture to catalyze cutting-edge research and interdisciplinary co-operation. “Before starting the project in 2013, we visited science hubs like the Francis Crick Institute in London and the Maersk Tower in Copenhagen,” Vendela Martinac, who heads the Stockholm branch of C.F. Møller Architect...

Under the plans before Yarra City Council, the hospital’s existing 11-storey brick Aikenhead Wing on the corner of Victoria Parade and Nicholson Street would be demolished to make way for a new 11-storey building housing the Aikenhead Centre for Medical Discovery (ACMD). Denton Corker Marshall’s design for the building aims to respond to the transitional urban context...

Around 1,500 of the structures will be set up over the following months at the direction of Domenico Arcuri, the country's special commissioner for the Covid-19 emergency. These will act as distribution sites for the 3.4 million Pfizer vaccine doses, which Italy is expected to receive in January after suffering the most coronavirus deaths out of any European nation th...

Van Eijk & Van der Lubbe deliberately approached the interiors of the 84-bed health facility like they were creating a 4-star hotel to give patients a more comfortable stay. "Unlike similar 'healing environments', this care hotel is designed from the user's perspective," said the studio. "The interior actively participates in the rehabilitation process of the patie...

Developed with an eye on the future, the proposal explores the possibility of quick-to-assemble, temporary hospitals that could be preemptively built and packed away in warehouses until the need for them arises. “As architects we can’t cure people, but we can make a contribution to make things more pleasant in the future for these people,” Studio Protype explained. De...

Stantec worked with contractor Walsh Construction to turn three halls in the centre into an alternative care facility with 3000 beds. The team, which was assembled on 26 March, was tasked to complete it within three weeks. "We were under construction within 12 hours of contract" "From the day we got the contract to completion of all 3000 beds is 25 days," King told...

An eco-sustainable bamboo and aluminium dome to solve social distancing problem at the beach during Covid-19. The panels are made by textile fibres which are light, washable, reaplaceable to guarantee both the hygiene standars and the relax at the beach. Inside the dome, there is a salt water shower which, through an advanced hydraulic system, takes the water directly fr...

"A non-healthcare building converted to a patient care space is not quite a hospital" While converting existing buildings into fully functioning hospitals is unfeasible, high schools and large hotels can be used as care space for coronavirus patients, says Jason Schroer, who is director of health at HKS's firm in Dallas. Here he explains how (via Dezeen). Aviointer...

As a solution, Plastique Fantastique has created the mobile personal protective space, a pneumatic area where doctors can treat patients in safety. It has a positive air pressure which means the air constantly flows out of the personal space only – not letting potentially contaminated air inside. A ventilator, which can be located outside or in an extra decontaminated sp...

The US automaker announced that it is working to use the same material for airbags to produce 1.3 million medical gowns for the country’s medical professionals on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ford is working with airbag supplier Joyson Safety Systems to repurpose the material and create reusable gowns. The lightweight fabric used in airbag construction — ...

What began as an initiative by Cornell University, led by Jenny Sabin, has now reached architecture studios across the US in a matter of days. The likes of BIG and KPF are now utilizing their firm’s 3D printers to mass-produce face shields and combat the shortage faced by medical staff. The open-source template, which most of the contributing architects have based the...

With a number of studios utilizing their 3D printers and laser cutters to produce vital face shields, Foster + Partners has now shared a template for a general-purpose visor that can be cleaned and reused. Composed of just three pieces, the prototype has been designed with the aim of facilitating quick mass production of the visors. Using a Zund G3 M 2500 cutting mach...

The largest number of architects are engaged by the city’s Department of Design and Construction (DDC), which has a $13-billion portfolio serving 20 city agencies. Besides such work as street repair and water-system renewal, the agency manages what is probably the nation’s largest municipal portfolio of public building design and construction—from park projects and libra...

The morphology of the ship continues to haunt citizens and architects. A few days ago, the Genoese newspaper Il Secolo XIX announced that MSC (Mediterranean Shipping Company) was ready to transform a cruise ship into a floating hospital, with the support of Rina (the certification body that is also supervising the reconstruction of the new motorway bridge designed by Ren...

Led by Dr. Samuel Smith, an anesthesiologist at MGH and instructor at Harvard Medical School, architect Eric Höweler, co-partner of the Boston-based Höweler + Yoon, and faculty at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD), the development of the PIH emerged after the two hospitals created a Center for COVID Innovation, which is mobilizing experts across disciplines to re...

Opposite Office founder Benedikt Hartl wrote an open letter to the German minister of health, Jens Spahn, proposing the idea to temporarily transform the unopened, 220,000-square-metre airport. He believes that the project, titled Covid-19 Superhospital BER, would help support Germany for the outbreak should it get worse. So far, the country has over 75,000 confirmed ...

Spanish design brands "optimistic" as factories reopen after lockdown Manufacturers in Spain are reopening their factories after two weeks in total lockdown to stop the spread of coronavirus, with brands to promising to "bounce back" (via Dezeen). Foster + Partners' Cleveland Clinic medical school becomes coronavirus hospital The Foster + Partners-designed Samso...

In order to build 60 Emergency Quarantine Facilities (EQF), WTA was inspired by their pavilion developed last year, part of the Anthology Festival. A viable quarantine structure, the Boysen Pavilion “embodied speed, scalability and simplicity in its structure”. Principal Architect of WTA Architecture and Design Studio William Ti and Dr. Glenn Angeles collaborated with...

The temporary hospital facility is one of four sites currently under construction across the region, facilities that will make up the first phase of an effort launched by the Governor to increase the number of hospital beds across the downstate area. The conversions are being handled by a federal response team led by the Army Corps of Engineers. Additional project partne...

Named CURA (connected units for respiratory ailments), the first structure is currently being built in the italian city of Milan. According to the team behind the project, which includes Carlo Ratti, the units could be as fast to mount as a hospital tent, but as safe as an isolation ward, thanks to biocontainment with negative pressure. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, an ...

It is imagined that the structure, titled the ‘vital house’, could be constructed quickly from sustainable prefabricated wooden elements close to the epicenters of future virus outbreaks. ‘The stories of COVID-19 patients from around the world from the past days and weeks, has inspired us to contribute to the possible fight of the virus,’ says Studio Prototype. ‘The c...

Tedbury and Hong, who met while studying architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, designed a curved plastic device that attaches onto "fire escape-style" pull door handles via a pair of cable ties. The idea is that instead of opening the door with their hands, users loop their arm through the adaptor and pull the door open. The duo came up with the desi...