Tseshaht Tribal Multiplex and Health Centre / By Lubor Trubka Associates Architects

Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada
Lubor Trubka Associates Architects
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Photo © Courtesy of Peter Powles

Completed in October of 2007, the Tseshaht Health Centre and Multiplex is an example of a cooperative community venture and the use of timber as an architectural vocabulary to express the Tseshaht’s respect for nature, cultural heritage and their historical reverence for wood utilized in their daily lives.

Housing with Verandas / By Rüdiger Lainer + Partner Architekten

Buchengasse 157, 1100 Vienna, Austria
Rüdiger Lainer + Partner Architekten
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Photo © Courtesy of Hubert Dimko

The taller part rises out of a one- to-two storey plinth zone that has incised outdoor areas and private patios, and is shifted back from the lower, differentiated block edge.

Triamant Haspengouw Velm : By Buro II & Archi+I

Halingenstraat, Sint-Truiden, Belgium
Buro II & Archi+I
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Photo © Courtesy of Filip Dujardin

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‘Care for Life’, the client, has developed an innovative vision regarding living and care in our modern society.

Retirement Home : By Atelier Zündel & Cristea

Riedisheim, France
Atelier Zündel & Cristea
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Photo © Courtesy of Atelier Zündel & Cristea

This retirement home is located on the heights of Riedisheim (a suburb of Mulhouse), in a residential neighborhood. The conjunction of geophysical and regulatory constraints rendered this plot of land difficult to build upon : its elongated form, its gradient exceeding 10%, and the very restrictive POS regulations applicable to it were a priori incompatible with the size and demands of the project.

Maggie’s Centre : By Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners

London, England
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
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Photo © Courtesy of José Miguel Hernández Hernández

A new center offers cancer patients a peaceful place for care other institutions
cannot provide
In 1988, an extraordinary Scottish woman named Maggie Keswick Jencks was diagnosed with breast cancer. She was a mother, a scholar who wrote and lectured about Chinese landscape gardening, a world traveler, and the wife of designer and critic Charles Jencks, not to mention an accomplished landscape designer in her own right. After surgery, and a five-year period of remission, the cancer returned. This time an aggressive strain attacked her bones, bone marrow, and liver. Maggie was also outgoing, articulate, and an often-published writer who was willing to try an extraordinary range of treatments and strategies as she fought for her life. She won a second period of remission, but finally succumbed to her disease in 1995. 

De Ronding : By OIII Architecten

Burgemeester Meslaan, Tiel, The Netherlands
OIII Architecten
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Photo © Courtesy of Thea van den Heuvel

The De Ronding residential facility for seniors naturally incorporates itself within the surrounding residential neighborhood.  The new apartment complex on the Burgemeester Meslaan continues the existing park-like feel, complimenting the Riverland Foundation care center buildings.

Daycare Centre Felsoord : By Möhn + Bouman Architects

Delft, The Netherlands
Möhn + Bouman Architects
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Photo © Courtesy of Jeroen Musch and Bart van Vlijmen

The project concerns the extension and renovation of an existing daycare centre for mentally disabled, situated in a natural wetland area near Delft, the Netherlands.

Sacred Heart of Jesus : By ACDF * Architecture

Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
ACDF * Architecture
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Photo © Courtesy of Marc Cramer

The extension of the Mother house of the Sisters of Charity of the Sacred Heard of Jesus in Sherbrooke is 56,680 sqf and includes a 54-room health care unit with all the attached services, a kitchen to serve 200 people, a physiotherapy room, a library, maintenance workshops and an inner courtyard designed with a garden.  More photographs, drawings, and sketches of this project following the break.

Mornington Centre : By Lyons

Mornington, Victoria, Australia
Lyons
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Photo © Courtesy of John Gollings & Roger Du Buisson

This new building provides extended residential accommodation for older people who require specialist evaluation, rehabilitation and nursing care.
The building contests the conventional paradigm of a nursing home. Through its spatial arrangements and normalising environment it shifts from a medico-centric care model to one where family and carers work with staff to deliver care to residents.

San Blas, Usera and Villaverde by Estudio Entresitio

 
Architectural photographer Roland Halbe has sent us his photos of three health centres in Madrid by Spanish architects Estudio Entresitio, all with identical floor plans but executed in different materials.