Henning Larsen Architects,Healing Architecture Wins in Herlev, Denmark

Herlev, Denmark

Henning Larsen Architects
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Danish practice Henning Larsen Architects and the consortium consisting of the architecture companies Friis & Moltke and Brunsgaard & Laursen, the engineering companies NNE Pharmaplan and Orbicon Leif Hansen, the consulting company Norconsult and landscape architects SLA have won the competition for the extension of Herlev Hospital, just outside of Copenhagen.

Suzhou Children’s Hospital : By HKS Architects

Suzhou, China
HKS Architects
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International architecture practice HKS shared their proposal for the Suzhou Children’s Hospital Competition in China. The program includes a 94,800 sqm children’s hospital with 600 beds in the initial phase including over 7,000 sqm for outpatient clinics, 14 OR’s, a full service emergency department, imaging, and required support.

Maggie’s Centre : By Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners

London, England
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
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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. 

Klinikum Klagenfurt : By DFA Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes

St. Veiter Strasse 47, A 9020 Klagenfurt, Austria
DFA Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes
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Photo © Courtesy of Hertha Hurnaus

The new project for the Provincial Hospital in Klagenfurt is innovative in many ways. The latest Medical Technology along with an enhanced cross-utilization of medical equipment and facilities (operating rooms, examination and treatment rooms and wards in the logistics field) give this new hospital a pioneering status in Europe.

St. Anthony Hospital : By ZGF Architects LLP

Gig Harbor, Washington, United States
ZGF Architects LLP
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A COMMUNITY IN NEED
Prior to the completion of the new St. Anthony Hospital, the South Sound Region represented one of the largest population centers in the State of Washington without a central community hospital. As a result more than 3,500 emergencies and 4,000 patients requiring overnight care had to travel well outside of the area for treatment annually. The 112-bed SF full service hospital in Gig Harbor—the city’s first—provides all the critical