Kashef Chowdhury - URBANA   Bangladesh   A project of the NGO Friendship, this hospital complex is located in Shyamnagar, an upazila of Satkhira District in southwest Bangladesh. Built by the Dhaka practice of Kashef Chowdhury, the pavilions of exposed brick mingle with the rural surroundin

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Qatar   A tract of land measuring 1.3 million square meters, between Qatar University and the new city of Lusail, is the site of Doha’s Al Dayaan project, an opportunity to rethink hospital architecture in a context of exponentially advancing medical innovat

Renzo Piano   Uganda   On the shore of Lake Victoria, a pediatric hospital seeks to provide medical care to young residents of the area while serving as a center for the training of local physicians and nurses. Equipped with three operating rooms and eighty beds, the hospi

PMMT Arquitectes   Spain   In the wake of research conducted in collaboration with Catalonia’s health system, the Barcelona firm PMMT was commissioned to design a prototype to be built close to hospitals as reinforcement for the regional medical network, in response to the pan

Lecoc Arquitectura   Algeria   Located in the Usto neighborhood of Bir El Djir, this project by the Valencian firm Lecoc Arquitectura —with Alicia Medrano and Fernando Pedrosa at the helm— shows a clear-cut and compact massing on an irregular site, maximizing its useful area. The

Manuel Herz   Senegal   The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation – in partnership with the non-profit organization Le Korsa – has funded the construction of the new maternity and pediatric clinics of the hospital of Tambacounda, Senegal. The scheme by Manuel Herz – a German arc

Arquitectura Chile 15   Spain   With the health crisis that broke out last spring, the government of the Community of Madrid, through its regional health service, took several measures to try to curb the pandemic and provide urgent attention to the ill. The IFEMA field hospital mad

El Equipo Mazzanti   Colombia   The building is the outcome of a competition that was held in the year 2012 to enlarge the premises of the Fundación Santa Fe, one of Bogotá’s leading hospitals and an institution known to be a pioneer in research and innovation having to do with pat

José María Sánchez García   Spain   The proposal is based on the understanding of the hospital building as an urban space, through the recovery and revaluation of its historic qualities, and the appropriate incorporation of the building in the city. The intervention allows the hospital

Sharon Davis Design   Nepal   The New York practice of Sharon Davis worked with the NGO Possible Health and the Nepalese government in raising new medical facilities in Achham, one of Nepal’s poorest and most remote regions. Surrounded by mountains in the Seti River Valley, the c

Kengo Kuma   Japan   Surrounded by a small forest and a prairie, this hospital specialized in rehabilitation is located next to Narita International Airport, Japan’s largest, 50 kilometers west of Tokio. This low-rise hospital, with just two floors, is arranged around tw

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   One hundred years after Anni and Josef Albers met, their work, philosophy and funding clout have made possible a stunning hospital that is saving lives in one of the hottest places on Earth. When Anni Albers began weaving at the Bauhaus in the 1920s,

The Barcelona studio Pinearq, which specializes in hospitals and other facilities for the health sciences all over the world, has in collaboration with the Romanian firm Dico si Tiganas won the contest to build a new integral transplant center in the

Justo Isasi   It is fitting to use the name of the nurse Isabel Zendal, a key figure in the extraordinary expedition that took the smallpox vaccine to the confines of the Spanish Empire early in the 19th century, for the Community of Madrid’s new hospital for epid

Ramón Araujo   Architecture plays an important role in the response to catastrophes of all kinds, and this role is raising a great amount of interest in society. Nevertheless, it must be made clear from the start that in emergency architecture, many conventional fe

If we were to pinpoint an emblem for Spain’s successful public healthcare system, one sure candidate would be La Paz Hospital in Madrid. At least that is the opinion of the institution’s authorities, who, faced with a dire need for more space, found

En el antiguo aparcamiento del Hospital Universitario de Elche, el estudio alicantino de Enrique Tallés ha construido la nueva unidad integral ambulatoria, conectada con el hospital a través de una pasarela. El edificio, un volumen prismático sencill

Adela García-Herrera   Encargados por el Insalud, estos dos libros recogen las experiencias del organismo nacional en el diseño de hospitales durante las últimas décadas. ≪La arquitectura de los hospitales públicos ≫ —como apunta Justo Isasi en la introducción— ≪es algo de

Alfonso Casares Reinaldo Ruiz-Yébenes   Aidhos

Justo Isasi Alberto Pieltain   La arquitectura del Insalud, 1986-2000

Justo Isasi Alberto Pieltain   La arquitectura del Insalud, 1986-2000