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Renzo Piano designs trio of nature-focused hospitals for Greece

September 7, 2022 Lizzie Crook 0
Exterior of the General Hospital of Komotini

Italian architect Renzo Piano’s studio has shared its plans to create three hospitals in the cities of Thessaloniki, Komotini and Sparta in Greece for the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. Expected to complete in 2025, the three facilities will become the University Pediatric Hospital Of Thessaloniki, the General Hospital Of Sparta and the General Hospital Of Komotini.

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Renzo Piano designs trio of nature-focused hospitals for Greece

September 7, 2022 Lizzie Crook 0
Exterior of the General Hospital of Komotini

Italian architect Renzo Piano’s studio has shared its plans to create three hospitals in the cities of Thessaloniki, Komotini and Sparta in Greece for the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. Expected to complete in 2025, the three facilities will become the University Pediatric Hospital Of Thessaloniki, the General Hospital Of Sparta and the General Hospital Of Komotini.

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“Smog-eating” ceramic fins cover hospital in Milan by Mario Cucinella Architects

April 26, 2022 Jon Astbury 0
Exterior image of the San Raffaele Hospital

Large ceramic fins with a titanium dioxide coating that can break down smog particles cover the wave-like form of this hospital building in Milan, designed by local practice Mario Cucinella Architects. The 40,000-square-metre San Raffaele Hospital, nicknamed the Iceberg, combines university teaching and research spaces with an emergency room and 284-bed inpatient facility across its 10

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BIG designs Danish neuroscience centre to “mimic” the human brain

March 18, 2022 James Parkes 0
The centre will have a red hue exterior

Architecture studio BIG has designed a six-storey neuroscience centre in Aarhus, Denmark, with an undulating form derived from the human brain. Named Neuro, the building for The Danish Neuroscience Center (DNC) will be shaped like a 2D scan of folding and undulating Gyri – curving ridges of grey matter on the outermost layer of the human brain. The

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Ten architecturally impressive hospitals that aim to redefine healthcare

February 4, 2022 Nat Barker 0
Tambacounda Maternity and Paediatric Hospital, Senegal, by Manuel Herz Architects

Following The Friendship Hospital in Bangladesh being named the world’s best building, we have rounded up 10 other architecturally impressive medical facilities from across the globe. Tambacounda Maternity and Paediatric Hospital, Senegal, by Manuel Herz Architects Characterised by its lattice-like brickwork, this maternity and paediatric clinic designed by Swiss studio Manuel Herz Architects, is an extension to an existing

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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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