Health

Zaha Hadid Architects to arrange Italian hospital around multi-level gardens

December 17, 2025 Amy Peacock 0

Architecture studio Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled its design for Malpensa Hospital in northern Italy, which will encircle gardens and landscaped rooftops. Set to be built between Milan and Varese, the building will unite the existing Gallarate and Busto Arsizio hospitals into one healthcare facility that provides services to approximately one million local residents. Commissioned by

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Stephen Marshall Architects tops Maggie’s Northampton with angular metal roof

December 16, 2025 Amy Peacock 0

A large, overhanging roof shelters a wrap-around patio at the latest Maggie’s Centre, designed by London studio Stephen Marshall Architects for Northampton General Hospital in England. Located on a former car park on the hospital site, the two-storey Maggie’s Northampton features floor-to-ceiling glazing on the lower floor facades, and an upper floor situated in its distinctive

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Standard Practice designs Copenhagen eye clinic to double as a gallery

November 24, 2025 Amy Frearson 0

Architecture studio Standard Practice has created a gallery-informed interior for the Copenhagen Eye Institute, with details including a circular sculpture plinth and a steel-tiled reception desk. The Copenhagen-based studio, led by British architects Henry Gibbon and Hugh Diamond, was aiming to create the same sense of “calm and assurance” that can be found in exhibition

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Fernanda Canales creates perforated-brick circular community centre

October 25, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Architecture studio Fernanda Canales has created a semi-open community centre for the elderly in Mexico City, using a circular form and simple materials The House for the Elderly is located in Neco, in the border state of Sonora, an arid environment with social and economic problems related to cross-border smuggling. It has been shortlisted in

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Herzog & de Meuron unveils Swiss children’s hospital that “functions like a town”

October 13, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

A wood-clad acute-care facility modelled on a town forms part of University Children’s Hospital, which Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron has completed in Zurich. Forming a part of Kinderspital, Switzerland’s largest hospital complex for children and adolescents, the 96,200-square-metre project by Herzog & de Meuron also includes a standalone building for research and

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Max Núñez Arquitectos creates concrete care home in Chile

September 18, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Local studio Max Núñez Arquitectos designed this concrete care home in Chile with open interiors to reduce maintenance, create a dialogue with a park and build a sense of community for the elderly inhabitants. Set in a suburb of northern Santiago, Max Núñez Arquitectos created four multi-storey concrete buildings oriented around a pavilion-like structure with

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NBBJ uses “softly curving” buildings for adolescent behavioural health campus

September 3, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Architecture firm NBBJ has integrated a series of curved buildings into a sloped California site to create an “inclusive, healing environment” for a behavioural health campus for adolescent patients. The 55,600 square foot (5,165 square metres) campus is located in Monterey and serves as a local and adolescent-focused branch of Montage Health, a California-based non-profit

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“Garden for the city” forms heart of health centre in Carcavelos

September 2, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

A curving concrete canopy and a public garden animate Carcavelos Health Complex near Lisbon, Portugal, completed by local practices Simão Botlelho, Studio-J and Duoma. Carcavelos Health Complex combines four separate health services in a single building and was the result of a public architecture competition held in 2018. Its sloping site is bordered by residential

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MIAS references spider anatomy for foyer of Spanish healthcare centre

July 17, 2024 Betty Owoo 0

A radial wooden structure reminiscent of the body of a spider defines this foyer for a therapeutic healthcare centre, completed by architecture studio MIAS in the hills of Catalonia. Located in the town of Arenys de Munt, the teal-coloured pavilion is designed by MIAS as a flexible and “domestic” space where family members, patients and doctors can

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NG Architects prototypes demountable healthcare clinic for Gaza

July 17, 2024 Jennifer Hahn 0

London studio NG Architects has unveiled prototype sections of a medical clinic at the London Festival of Architecture, which the studio plans to build in Gaza “as soon as there is a gap” in Israeli strikes. On show at the University of Westminster, the full-scale segments were designed to demonstrate how structures could be built

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