2022 Award winners

Healthcare Design (Over 25,000 sqm)

Judges: Kate Copeland AM, Australian Health Design Council, Australia; Coen van den Wijngaart, archipelago architects, Belgium; David Powell, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Winner: Hospital Nova, Finland

Commissioned by Central Finland Health Care District
Designed by JKMM Architects

Highly commended: First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine and Research Center, China

Commissioned by Zhejiang University
Designed by HDR and ZIAD

Highly commended: Maitland Hospital, Australia

Commissioned by Health Infrastructure NSW
Designed by BVN

Healthcare Design (Under 25,000 sqm)

Judges: Liesbeth van Heel, Erasmus MC, Netherlands; Bill Hercules, WJH Health, USA; Brenda Bush-Moline, Stantec, USA

Winner: The Sight and Sound Centre supported by Premier Inn, UK

Commissioned by Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
Designed by Sonnemann Toon Architects

Highly commended: Heatherwood Hospital, UK

Commissioned by Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Designed by BDP
Main contractor Kier Construction

Design for Health and Wellness

Judges: Dr Liz Paslawsky, SALUS Global Knowledge Exchange, Australia; Charlotte Ruben, White Arkitekter, Sweden; Marte Lauvsnes, Sykehusbygg, Norway

Winner: Maternity Ward at Punta Europa Hospital, Spain

Commissioned by Hospital Punta de Europa, Servicio Andaluz de Salud, Junta de Andalucía
Designed by Virai Arquitectura / Parra-Müller Arquitectura de Maternidades

Highly commended: Grafton Way Building, University College London Hospital, UK

Commissioned by University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Designed by Scott Tallon Walker Architects in association with Edward Williams Architects

Highly commended: Assisted-living apartments OCMW Halle, Belgium

Commissioned by Openbaar Centrum voor Maatschappelijke Welzijn (OCMW)
Designed by Gortemaker Algra Feenstra

Design for Adaptation and Transformation

Judges: Mungo Smith, MAAP Architects, Australia; Marc Levinson, Murphy Philipps Architects, UK; Sam Shooter, Hoare Lea, UK

Winner: University of Illinois College of Medicine, Surgical and Innovation Training Lab, USA

Commissioned by The University of Illinois College of Medicine
Designed by CannonDesign and Bailey Edward

Highly commended: Herston Biofabrication Institute, Australia

Commissioned by Metro North Hospital and Health Service
Designed by Hassell

Highly commended: Maternity Ward at Punta Europa Hospital, Spain

Commissioned by Hospital Punta de Europa, Servicio Andaluz de Salud, Junta de Andalucía
Designed by Virai / Parra-Müller Arquitectura de Maternidades

Future Healthcare Design

Judges: Cliff Harvey, Union of International Architects’ Public Health Group, Canada; Mohammed Ayoub, HDR, USA; Paul Bell, Ryder Architecture, UK

Winner: Joseph Bracops Hospital, Belgium

Commissioned by Hôpitaux Iris Sud – Iris Ziekenhuizen Zuid
Designed by archipelago in collaboration with NU

Highly commended: Cambridge Children’s Hospital, UK

Commissioned by Cambridge University Hospitals
Designed by Hawkins\Brown and White Arkitekter

Highly commended: New Hospital Malmö VB, Sweden

Commissioned by Region Skåne
Designed by White Arkitekter

Highly commended: Oriel, UK

Commissioned by Moorfields Eye Hospital
Designed by AECOM, Penoyre & Prasad and White Arkitekter

Interior Design and Arts

Judges: Ruth Charity, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK; Birgitte Gade Ernst, Arkitema Architects, Denmark; Kathryn Koran, Cleveland Clinic, USA

Winner: Queen Silvia Children’s Hospital, Sweden

Commissioned by Västfastigheter
Designed by White Arkitekter

Highly commended: The Royal Brompton Diagnostic Centre, London, UK

Commissioned by rb&hArts; Interior Design by BAT Studio
Artworks by BAT Studio, Enya Lachman-Curl, David Lemm and Rumbidzai Savanhu
Architecture by Murphy Philipps Architects
Built by Kier Construction and BAT Studio

Highly commended: The Sight and Sound Centre supported by Premier Inn, UK

Commissioned by Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
Designed by Sonnemann Toon Architects

Mental Health Design

Judges: Alice Liang, Montgomery Sisam Architects, Canada; Beau Herr, CallisonRTKL, USA; Christopher Shaw, Medical Architecture, UK

Winner: Sikkerhetsbygget High Security Mental Hospital in Trondheim, Norway

Commissioned by St Olavs Hospital / Sykehusbygg HF
Designed by RATIO arkitekter and Karlsson Architects

Highly commended: Sligo Adult Mental Health Unit, Ireland

Commissioned by the Health Service Executive
Designed by Wejchert Architects

Product and Technology Design Innovation

Judges: Christine Chadwick, CannonDesign, Canada; Jim Chapman, Manchester School of Architecture, UK

Winner: Ascent series, Sweden

Designed by Green Furniture Concept

Highly commended: The Leeds Innovation Popup, UK

Developed by Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Highly commended: The Guldmann Trainer Module, Trafford General Hospital, UK

Commissioned by Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Developed and designed by Guldmann

Design Research Project

Judges: Jonathan Erskine, European Health Property Network, UK; Goran Lindahl, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Winner: Redesigning rehabilitation: The NOVELL (Neuroscience Optimised Virtual Environments Living Lab) way

Author Julie Bernhardt PhD, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, on behalf of the NOVELL Collaboration
Co-authors Marcus White, Aaron Davis, Maryam Banaei, Juan Pablo Saa Arancibia, Luis Pflaumer, Ruby Lipson-Smith, Heidi Zeeman, Marie Elf, Tianyi Yang, Michelle Shannon, Leonid Churilov, and on behalf of the NOVELL Collaboration

Highly commended: A post-occupancy evaluation framework to inform future investment in healthcare design

Authors Shari Blanch, Jacobs, Australia, and Annabelle Fraser, Jacobs, Australia

Susan Francis Design Champion

The accolade, named after one of the UK’s great minds and practitioners in healthcare design, the late Susan Francis, is presented to a visionary healthcare leader who has championed, advocated and monitored the value of design across one or more major healthcare projects, working in close collaboration with multiple stakeholders to deliver excellence and set new standards in design quality.