Tag Hospitals

23-10-2020

Energy-efficient biomedical centre in Badalona

An energy-efficient biomedical centre has opened in Badalona, Catalonia

23-09-2020

Heatherwick Studio has completed the new Maggie’s Centre in Leeds

Maggie’s is a foundation that has been providing support for cancer patients across the UK since 1996. 2020 saw the inauguration of the organisation’s twenty-sixth centre in Leeds: the work of Heatherwick Studio, a world-famous architecture firm. In their project for the new Maggie’s centre, Heatherwick followed the design theme of biophilia: the basic idea is that “healthy” and natural materials can have an effect on the ability of the centre’s residents to heal and recover. This is partly the reason why the building has been entirely covered with flowers and plants, as part of a project by renowned landscaping firm Balston Agius.

06-08-2020

FTA - Filippo Taidelli Architetto designs Emergency Hospital 19, a modular and sustainable hospital

Emergency Hospital 19 is the new concept developed by architect Filippo Taidelli in collaboration with Humanitas and Techint, to sustain hospitals with the management and containment of infectious diseases when needed. It is a modular, flexible, sustainable and self-sufficient healthcare structure, an emergency architecture with the capabilities of a permanent building.

30-07-2020

Stefano Boeri Architetti China Shenzhen Rehabilitation Centre

An accessible building that is integrated into the fabric of the city and consists of a series of green terraces and overlapping volumes, located next to a big public park and connected directly with the city’s light urban mobility system. A sustainable system combining natural greenery with architecture and biodiversity, where there is a new concept of motorial and cognitive disability. This is how we might describe what the Shenzhen Rehabilitation Centre is, or rather, will be, because China’s biggest and most innovative rehabilitation centre is due to be built over the next three years to plans by the Chinese branch of the Italian studio of Stefano Boeri Architetti.

11-06-2020

KKE Architects’ extension of St. David’s Hospice, Newport

The design of Worcester-based firm KKE Architects for the extension to the St. David’s Hospice in Newport is the result of perfect synergy between the architects and the clients. In the new extension, the architects took on board all the suggestions received from the clients and gained over years of experience in the field in an effort to create comfortable spaces to accommodate the terminally ill and their family members during the difficult journey of end-of-life care. The project has received numerous prizes and awards.

30-03-2020

Architecture joins the battle against the Covid-19 virus

An international team of architects, engineers, doctors, military experts and NGOs has implemented an open-source project for conversion of shipping containers into intensive care units which can be set up rapidly wherever there is a medical emergency, such as Covid-19. The first prototype is currently under construction in Milan, Italy, with contributions by Carlo Ratti Associati and Italo Rota.

27-03-2020

Fixed aluminium sunbreak for Behnisch Architekten’s AGORA

The expansion on the cancer research centre in Lausanne has a façade with a pyramid-shaped laser-microperforated aluminium sunbreak

06-03-2020

Casey House by Hariri Pontarini Architects, 2020 National Urban Design Awards

Twelve projects across Canada - each one with a massive impact on the surrounding built environment - have been selected for the 2020 National Urban Design Awards. One of these is the renovation and extension by Hariri Pontarini Architects to Casey House, a specialized healthcare facility for individuals with HIV/AIDS.