Christ & Gantenbein   Switzerland   To update the hospital complex to modern medical practice, the buildings will be attached to the existing by gardens, courtyards, and terraces. The modular floor plans in the two volumes of the first phase make future adjustments possible...

Renzo Piano   Italy   Famous for its cutting-edge treatments, a medical center in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh will be expanding its facilities to provide healthcare services to all Sicilians. The hospital facilities take up an unobstructed, permeable gro

Renzo Piano   France   The compact campus envisioned to go up over an old Citroën factory will seal the merger of two hospitals in the suburbs of Paris, and serve as a center for medical university practicums. Conceived as a superposition of neutral trays that are easily a

Renzo Piano   Greece   Como en los otros dos centros de la iniciativa, la configuración en alas longitudinales maximiza la apertura al exterior para garantizar luz y ventilación natural en las habitaciones y en las salas de operación. As in the initiative’s other two cente

Renzo Piano   Greece   An altogether new building replaces an obsolete clinic that has been operating since the 1950s and will have the space and means to provide more specialized medical departments. In a firm commitment to sustainability, Greek hospitals will have near-z

Renzo Piano   Greece   Replacing the scattered health infrastructure of the city, a cutting-edge health center appears in the woods on the outskirts, and patients will benefit from the natural surroundings as they heal. Komotini will be the first of three hospitals carried

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Denmark   The Danish firm led by Bjarke Ingels has unveiled its design for a new facility at the university hospital of Aarhus which combines scientific research – in psychiatry and the neurosciences – with medical care for people suffering physical and mental

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture Reinier de Graaf   Exhibited at the Venice Biennale and at Matadero Madrid, the visual manifesto challenges conventional design of healthcare facilities, and reflects on the evolution of this typology and on the technical upgrades it will require in the future...

Kashef Chowdhury - URBANA   Bangladesh   The Friendship Hospital in Bangladesh designed by Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA will be awarded the RIBA International Prize 2021, the global accolade for design excellence and social impact. A project of the NGO Friendship, this hospital complex is locate

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

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   Spain   Designed by Benedetta Tagliabue and Joan Callís of the Catalan firm Miralles Tagliabue EMBT, this pavilion in Barcelona stands beside the Santa Creu i Sant Pau Hospital, a work of Lluís Domènech i Montaner. The building is part of an international ne

José María Sánchez García   Spain   The ground floor is conceived as an urban interchange, with atrium-plazas and street-galleries. The courtyards are covered to allow their use all year round, and the original volumes of the vaulted rooms are recovered, removing the false ceilings...

IDOM   Spain   El proyecto de Idom, dirigido por Jesús María Susperregui Virto, responde a un modelo de hospital de alta especialización, docente e investigador, centrado en la asistencia al paciente. Con 35.000 metros cuadrados de uso sanitario, el edificio compac

Diébédo Francis Kéré Kéré Architecture   Burkina Faso   Health is a luxury in Africa, especially for the rural population, which lives so far from the few hospitals and healthcare centers of quality that exist in the countryside, such facilities tending to concentrate in capitals and large cities. 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Do you know who wrote this? On 7 August 2021, Renzo Piano sends me a picture of the laconic interior of his refuge in the Alps, another of the bucolic view from his window, and a third of a yellowish press cutting with lots of underlines. Can it be a

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,

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

Pilar Chías Tomás Abad   Nuevas tendencias en arquitectura sanitaria

Lia Piano   L' ospedale dei bambini, Entebbe, Uganda

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