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Hospital

A union of care and community

A union of care and community

Extensive consultation with hospital staff and residents shaped the Canberra Hospital Expansion, a nine-storey structure that marks Australia’s inaugural fully operational electric hospital.

A sanctuary for health

A sanctuary for health

Saving people’s lives and healing the mind and spirit, this hospital sensitively designed by SJK Architects is making a real difference to all who stay, visit and work within its walls.

BLP marks $658m healthcare project milestone in Sydney

BLP marks $658m healthcare project milestone in Sydney

BLP announces the topping out of Health Infrastructure’s $658m Sydney Children’s Hospital Stage 1 and Minderoo Children’s Comprehensive Cancer Centre building.

Harmony and healing in mental health design with Hassell

Harmony and healing in mental health design with Hassell

Caring for our mental health is paramount these days and architecture and design can lead the way as Hassell shows in its latest project in Queensland.

Victorian Heart Hospital wins The Health and Wellbeing Space at 2023 INDE.Awards

Victorian Heart Hospital wins The Health and Wellbeing Space at 2023 INDE.Awards

The winner of The Health and Wellbeing Space category changes lives in all the right ways and is a paragon of best practice design for the future.

“Health precincts are about embracing diversity and a holistic approach”: Ben Rees

“Health precincts are about embracing diversity and a holistic approach”: Ben Rees

Health precincts are complicated, multi-dimensional places to develop, design, deliver and operate, writes Hassell’s Ben Rees. So, “how do we balance commercial imperatives with the need to foster connection, community and wellbeing?”

Bates Smart comment: Can city-making inform hospital design?

Bates Smart comment: Can city-making inform hospital design?

From third spaces to connections with the urban realm, Alison Huynh shares her vision for healthy hospital design.

BLP appointed lead architect for Queensland’s Bundaberg Hospital

BLP appointed lead architect for Queensland’s Bundaberg Hospital

Billard Leece Partnership will lead the architectural design of Queensland’s new Bundaberg Hospital, tipped to be a significant step forward in the state’s health infrastructure development.

Welcome to Hospital Street: BLP realises Campbelltown award-winning expansion

Welcome to Hospital Street: BLP realises Campbelltown award-winning expansion

The $632 million Stage 2 Campbelltown Hospital Redevelopment in south-west Sydney realises the latest thinking around healthcare and healing environments. Campbelltown Hospital campus is almost doubled in size in Billard Leece Partnership’s (BLP) award-winning integrated design.

Comment: Fender Katsalidis principal Jessica Lee on the three biggest trends in aged care design

Comment: Fender Katsalidis principal Jessica Lee on the three biggest trends in aged care design

In this comment piece written by Jessica Lee, talks us through the standout trends in designing for aged care.

Silver Thomas Hanley on healthcare: Design brief, but with emotion

Silver Thomas Hanley on healthcare: Design brief, but with emotion

STH’s Anna Fox, Bill Kaloudis, Natalie Pitt and Stuart Turk put forward the case for emotionally responsive design with reference to healthcare projects that prioritise safety, views and space among other things.

Woods Bagot comment: ‘People-centric care’ sounds obvious, but we’re stuck in a system

Woods Bagot comment: ‘People-centric care’ sounds obvious, but we’re stuck in a system

In this comment piece on healthcare design, Edwina Bennett, associate principal at Woods Bagot, asserts that it’s time to prioritise people with new ways of organising our health spaces.