
EHD2025 Awards winners
We're delighted to announce the winners of the European Healthcare Design 2025 Awards!

The European Healthcare Design Awards 2025 shone a spotlight on design excellence in healthcare environments in Europe and around the world in a glowing finale to this year’s 11th European Healthcare Design Congress.
Design for Health and Wellness
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.
Commissioned by Servicio Madrileño de Salud
Designed by Virai Arquitectura
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Commissioned by Dublin Simon Community
Designed by OCMA
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Healthcare Design (Under 25,000 sqm)
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.
Commissioned by North London NHS Foundation Trust
Designed by Ryder Architecture
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Commissioned by Servicio Madrileño de Salud
Designed by Virai Arquitectura
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Health and Life Sciences
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.
Commissioned by Kings College London
Designed by HLM Architects
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Commissioned by Flinders University
Designed by Architectus
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Healthcare Design (Over 25,000 sqm)
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.
Commissioned by Kantonsspital Baden
Designed by Nickl & Partner Architekten Schweiz AG, Ghisleni Partner AG, Amstein + Walthert AG Zürich, idpp ag
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Commissioned by Alberta Health Services
Designed by DIALOG + Stantec
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Commissioned by 12 de Octubre University Hospital
Designed by Argola Arquitectos
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Design for Adaptation and Transformation
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.
Commissioned by Praktikertjänst Lidingödoktorn
Designed by White Arkitekter
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Future Healthcare Design
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.
Commissioned by Homestead Community Network
Designed by Makower Architects
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Mental Health Design
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.
Commissioned by Cayman Islands Government Public Works Department
Designed by Montgomery Sisam Architects in association with DDL Studio
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Commissioned by Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen
Designed by Atelier PRO and Vakwerk architecten
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Commissioned by Health New Zealand
Designed by Klein Architects
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Interior Design and Arts
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.
Commissioned by Royal United Hospitals Bath
Designed by Arcadis and Art at the Heart of the RUH
Funded by New Hospital Programme and charitable funds through RUHX
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Commissioned by Cone Health
Designed by Perkins&Will
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Commissioned by Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Designed by White Arkitekter and CW+
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Design Research for Healthcare Design
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.
Authored by: Dr Rutali Joshi, HKS, USA; Sophia Hami, HKS, UK; Dr Deborah Wingler, HKS and CADRE, USA; Jane Ho, HKS, UK; Jane McElroy, NBBJ, UK; Dr. Oliver Zuzan, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, UK
Authored by: Fatemeh Amirbeiki Tafti, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany; Jihae Han, KU Leuven, Belgium; Magdalena Katharina Wekenborg, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany; Andrew Vande Moere, KU Leuven, Belgium; Jan-Henning Schierz, Städtisches Klinikum Dresden, Germany; Ann Heylighen, KU Leuven, Belgium; Gesine Marquardt, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany