Tag results: health

Housing five athletic disciplines under one roof, a sports complex in northern France is a parallelogram monolith. Built atop a 12-hectare plot of land, the building can be seen as a beacon...

At Maggie’s Nottingham – an alternative cancer recovery centre – CZWG Architects designed a building with ‘friendly oval faces,’ to resemble a fairy tale house. Virtually...

A mental health clinic in Tokyo has been designed to resemble traditional Russian matryoshka dolls that stack into one another. Inside, bold colours give the space a fun, familiar aesthetic...

Japanese architect Masaki Imamura has designed an ophthalmology clinic in Niigata, inspired by the city’s heavy winter snowfalls. ‘The area can receive up to 3m of snow,’ Imamura...

A plot of land in Osaka, Japan, was once a farm road and later an illegally-built house; today it’s home to a pharmacy that pays tribute the property’s heritage. Nestled between two...

A psychiatric centre in Zaragoza, Spain, is pushing away stigma with eye-catching colour and a mountainous roof.The roof of the Neuropsychiatric Centre Our Lady of Carmen is a representation...

The children’s hospital in Melbourne, Australia, has a new kid-friendly approach to navigation. Following the meticulous design of its wayfinding program, the new facility contains...

In designing a dental clinic in Lisbon, Portugal, architect Luis Pedra Silva proves that healthcare spaces don’t have to be ‘cold.’ The resulting 149-sq-m space is divided into two...

Mikou Design Studio has won a competition to realize a 4000-sq-m swimming pool in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.The proposed development is a transparent and luminous project, where structural...

An enveloping aluminium façade shelters a biomedical research facility at a hospital of Navarra, Spain.The structure, realized by Vaíllo & Irigaray, was created with an attempt to link...