Tag: Hospitals

Oporto Blood Bank, Porto, Portugal, ARX Portugal Arquitectos

Oporto Blood Bank

Text descirption provided by the architects. The Oporto Blood Bank is built to support all activities of regional blood collection and analysis as well as its partition in 3 components (erythrocytes, plasma and platelets). These components are later to be distributed to hospitals and pharmaceutical industries. This typology is new […]

Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, C.F. Møller Architects

Aarhus University Hospital

Text description provided by the architects. The Emergency Centre, which is the first major element of the New University Hospital in Aarhus, is ready for use. This is a construction project for Denmark’s first super-hospital – an ultra-modern hospital that will be a pioneering project both in Denmark and internationally […]

Akershus University Hospital, Strømmen, Norway, C.F. Møller Architects

Akershus University Hospital

Text description provided by the architects. The Akershus University Hospital just outside Oslo is not a traditional institutional construction; it is a friendly, informal place with open and well-structured surroundings. These surroundings present a welcoming aspect to patients and their families. Akershus University Hospital has been designed to emphasise security […]

Hospital Dornbirn, Dornbirn, Austria, Gohm Hiessberger Architekten

Hospital Dornbirn

Text description provided by the architects. Actually two projects with separately masterful achievements. The addition first created new space through the use of a nearly undevelopable plot. First reduced down to the load-bearing reserves of an existing parking garage, two elegant levels of office space were created as eight-meter-tall steel […]

Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Singapore, RMJM

Khoo Teck Puat Hospital

Text description provided by the architects. Alexandra Hospital in Singapore, established in 1938, was renowned as one of the most modern hospitals in southeast Asia up through the 1970s. Today, RMJM’s design for the new 550-bed institution recreates the charm and ambiance of the pre-war facility while providing the highest […]