EHD2025 Awards winners

Judges: John Cooper, JCA, UK; Charlotte Ruben, White Arkitekter, Sweden; Ruairi Reeves, Medical Architecture, UK

An inspirational project that encompasses services outside of traditional healthcare settings and, through an alignment of the care philosophy with the design of the environment, helps promote positive behaviours towards healthy living and wellness.

Judges: Brenda Bush-Moline, Stantec, USA; Jaime Bishop, Architects for Health; Fleet Architects, UK; Peter Ward, King’s College London; Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, UK

An outstanding healthcare project in a community, primary or tertiary care setting that demonstrates high levels of sustainability and urban integration, transforming the quality of care services in an accessible location, and supporting the integrated needs of staff, patients and the community.

Judges: David Powell, Velindre University NHS Trust; Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, UK; Mohammed Ayoub, HDR, USA; Richard Mann, AECOM, UK and Ireland

An outstanding health and life sciences project that promotes the development of medical knowledge and innovation in areas such as training and education, clinical research, informatics and artificial intelligence, drug discovery and healthcare delivery, with a focus to improve patient and population health outcomes.

Supported by Lexica

The LIVE judging webinar for this category has been concluded. Recordings will be available for registered delegates at this year's Congress.

Judges: Kate Copeland, Australian Health Design Council, Australia; Ben Bassin, Blue Cottage of CannonDesign, USA; Paul Bell, Ryder Architecture, UK

An outstanding healthcare project in a secondary or tertiary care setting that demonstrates high levels of sustainability and urban integration, creates an effective clinical environment, promotes service improvement, and provides a supportive environment for staff, patients and their families.

Judges: Visiting Professor Jim Chapman, Manchester School of Architecture, UK; Christopher Shaw, Past chair, Architects for Health, UK; Christine Chadwick, Archus, Canada

An outstanding healthcare project that has had a transformational impact on resolving complex and difficult service design challenges.

Supported by Integrated Health Projects

Judges: Cliff Harvey, Grand River Hospital/St. Mary’s General Hospital, Canada; Bill Hercules, WJH Health, USA; Matthew Holmes, Jacobs, Australia

A future healthcare project that can demonstrate the potential for outstanding outcomes in masterplanning, place making, wellness, pandemic preparedness and sustainable development, in alignment with the strategic requirements of the healthcare provider to transform their services within the wider community, regional or national health system.

Judges: Beatrice Fraenkel, Design in Mental Health Network, UK; Dan Gibson, MJ Medical; Healthcare Design Leadership, UK; Tara Veldman, BLP, Australia

A mental health project that, through innovative design thinking, achieves a reconciliation between the needs of the patient/resident for a humanistic environment that supports ongoing therapy, care and recovery, and the requirement for appropriate levels of safety, security and supervision.

Judges: Ruth Charity, Oxford University Hospitals NHS FT, UK; Nicola Bertrand, Asklepios, Germany; Femke Feenstra, Gortemaker Algra Feenstra architects, Netherlands

An inspirational project that demonstrates exceptional skill in creating a compassionate healthcare environment that reflects and communicates the values of the healthcare provider through the integrated application of interior design with the visual arts.

Supported by: Medical Architecture

Judges: Göran Lindahl, Chalmers University of Technology, Centre for Healthcare Architecture, Sweden; Jonathan Erskine, European Health Property Network, UK; Grant Mills, University College London, UK

An independently assessed, completed and novel research study that can demonstrate innovation, relevance and practical application. The research should be original, showing critical thinking in a new field of investigation or by applying innovative methods and analysis to existing issues.