Health

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Grounded in tradition: Centre Médico‑Chirurgical in Kaya, Burkina Faso, by Nomos

In Kaya, Burkina Faso, Nomos has overseen the expansion of a medical centre using Nubian vaults and banco techniques

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Bill of health: PAMS clinic in Newman, Australia by Kaunitz Yeung Architecture

Kaunitz Yeung Architecture’s health centre in Newman in Australia provides culturally safe healthcare for Indigenous people historically excluded from public services

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Frame of mind: de Vylder Vinck Taillieu's Caritas psychiatric centre
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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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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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Lullaby Factory by Studio Weave, London
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Centre Hospitalier Louis-Daniel Beauperthuy by SCAU
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St Olav’s Hospital by Narud Stokke Wiig Architects
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Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau by Bonell & Gill Arquitectes
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Medisch Centrum Rijnmond-Zuid by Wiegerinck Architecten
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Riviera-Chablais Hospital by Groupe-6
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Livsrum Cancer Hospital by Effekt Architecture with Hoffmann and Lyngkilde
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AZ Groeninge Hospital by Baumschlager Eberle
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Essays about health, death, and infrastructures of care

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