Health

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Healthcare on the frontier: District hospital in Burtinle, Somalia, by Architectural Pioneering Consultants

A hospital designed by Architectural Pioneering Consultants in Burtinle, on the disputed border between Somalia and Ethiopia, overcame multiple obstacles to serve both locals ...

Adamo Faiden Architects’ veterinary clinic in Buenos Aires seen from the street, 3x2 aspect ratio, colour

Pet project: veterinary clinic in Buenos Aires, Argentina, by Adamo Faiden

Adamo Faiden’s new veterinary clinic in Buenos Aires is a testament to the growing consideration for non‑human creatures in cities

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The great outdoors: Parque Realengo in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by Ecomimesis Soluções Ecológicas and collaborators
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A modern almshouse: Appleby Blue in London, UK, by Witherford Watson Mann
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Village life: dementia centre in Oslo, Norway, by 3RW Arkitekter and Nord Architects
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Primary care: radiotherapy and hemodialysis centre in Barcelona, Spain by Baas Arquitectura and Casa Solo Arquitectos
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Patient plan: kinderspital in Zürich, Switzerland by Herzog & de Meuron
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Grounded in tradition: Centre Médico‑Chirurgical in Kaya, Burkina Faso, by Nomos
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Bill of health: PAMS clinic in Newman, Australia by Kaunitz Yeung Architecture
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Frame of mind: de Vylder Vinck Taillieu’s Caritas psychiatric centre
Patients at St Bartholomew's Hospital, Lodnon in 1929 being wheeled out in their beds

Typology: Hospitals

Ancient civilisation advocated letting the wider world’s healing power flow through the body and mind, but the industrialisation of healthcare isolated patients from the...

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Code yellow: Vredenburg Hospital in South Africa by Wolff Architects
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Building on Legacy: Health Education Centre and Outreach Schools in Uganda by Studio FH and Ross Langdon
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Revisit: ‘Aalto’s Paimio Sanatorium continues to radiate a profound sense of human empathy’
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New Psychiatric Hospital in Slagelse, Denmark, by Karlsson and VLA
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‘Rural Urban Framework’s hospital has kindled a new purpose for Angdong’
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Maggie’s Manchester by Foster + Partners: ‘What matters is not to lose that joy of living in the fear of dying’
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Shade of Meaning: Clinic in Turkana, Kenya, by Selgas Cano, Ignacio Peydro and MIT students
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Lullaby Factory by Studio Weave, London
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Essays about health, death, and infrastructures of care

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