2023 Award winners

Healthcare Design (Over 25,000 sqm)

Supported by archipelago

Lead judge: Kate Copeland, Australian Health Design Council, Australia
Panel judges: Paul Bell, Ryder, UK; Bill Hercules, WJH Health, USA

Winner: Radboudumc Main Building, Netherlands

Commissioned by Radboudumc
Designed by EGM architects

Highly commended: Ataşehir Hospital & Children’s Pavilion, Turkey

Architect of record Acibadem Project Management
Executive architect Lina Architecture
Interior design and interior architecture Gensler and Norm Architects

Highly commended: Cleveland Clinic London, UK

Commissioned by Cleveland Clinic London
Designed by PLP Architecture with HKS
Built by Sir Robert McAlpine

Highly commended: Albert Einstein Learning and Research Center, Brazil

Commissioned by Sociedade Beneficente Israelita Brasileira Albert Einstein
Designed by Perkins&Will and Safdie Architects

Healthcare Design (Under 25,000 sqm)

Lead judge: David Powell, Velindre Cancer Centre; Alder Hey Children’s NHS FT, UK
Panel judges: Coen van den Wijngaart, archipelago, Belgium; Brenda Bush-Moline, Stantec, USA

Winner: Te Huhi Raupō – Taranaki Base Hospital Renal Unit, New Zealand 

Commissioned by Te Whatu Ora 
Designed by Warren and Mahoney

Highly commended: The Pears Building, Institute of Immunity and Transplantation, UK

Commissioned by Royal Free Charity
Designed by Hopkins Architects

Highly commended: Sabanera Health Dorado, Puerto Rico

Commissioned by Prisa Group
Designed by Prisa Group, V Architecture, & Perkins&Will Team

Design for Sustainable Development

In collaboration with European Health Property Network

Lead judge: Jonathan Erskine, European Health Property Network, UK
Panel judges: Jaime Bishop, Fleet Architects / Architects for Health, UK; Mohammed Ayoub, HDR, USA

Winner: Clock View Hospital, UK

Commissioned by Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Designed by Medical Architecture

Highly commended: New Psychiatric Hospital in Slagelse, Denmark

Commissioned by Region Zealand
Designed by Karlsson Architects / VLA

Highly commended: The Royal Children’s Hospital, Australia

Commissioned by State Government of Victoria, Department of Health
Designed by Billard Leece Partnership and Bates Smart

Highly commended: Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary, UK

Commissioned by NHS Dumfries and Galloway
Designed by Ryder Architecture and NBBJ

Future Healthcare Design

Supported by Integrated Health Projects

Lead judge: Cliff Harvey, Union of International Architects Public Health Group, Canada
Panel judges: Warren Percival, RSK Group, UK; Chris Shaw, independent / Medical Architecture, UK

Winner: Velindre Cancer Centre, UK

Commissioned by Velindre University Hospital Trust
Designed by White arkitekter

Highly commended: National Rehabilitation Centre, UK

Commissioned by Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Designed by Ryder Architecture

Commissioned by Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Designed by Ryder Architecture

Commissioned by Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Designed by Perkins&Will with Schmidt Hammer Lassen

Highly commended: Mary Elizabeths Hospital, Denmark

Commissioned by Region Hovedstaden
Designed by 3XN in collaboration with Arkitema, Niras, and Kristine Jensens Tegnestue

Interior Design and Arts

Lead judge: Ruth Charity, artlink, Oxford University Hospitals NHS FT, UK
Panel judges: Marte Lauvsnes, Sykehusbygg, Norway; Birgitte Gade Ernst, Arkitema Architects, Denmark

Winner: Campbelltown Hospital Redevelopment, Australia

Commissioned by Health Infrastructure NSW
Designed by Billard Leece Partnership

Highly commended: Woonzorgcentrum Zierik7, Netherlands

Commissioned by Allévo, locatie Cornelia
Designed by Gortemaker Algra Feenstra architects

Highly commended: Evelina Clinical Research Facility Artwork, UK

Commissioned by Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Designed by Art in Site

Design for Adaptation and Transformation

Supported by RSK

Lead judge: Visiting Professor Jim Chapman, Manchester School of Architecture, UK
Panel judges: Beau Herr, Arcadis, USA; John Kelly, Lexica, UK

Winner: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre Space Transformation Project, Canada

Commissioned by Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Designed by NORR Architects & Engineers and Hariri Pontarini Architects

Highly commended: ICCU Extension, Tallaght University Hospital, Ireland

Commissioned by Tallaght University Hospital
Designed by Scott Tallon Walker Architects

Highly commended: Ledplastikcentrum at Bromma Hospital, Sweden

Commissioned by Vectura Properties
Designed by White arkitekter

Design for Health and Wellness

Supported by Lexica

Lead judge: John Cooper, JCA, UK
Panel judges: Charlotte Ruben, White Arkitekter, Sweden; Ruairi Reeves, Medical Architecture, UK

Winner: Woonzorgcentrum Zierik7, Netherlands

Commissioned by Allévo, locatie Cornelia
Designed by Gortemaker Algra Feenstra architects

Highly commended: Te Huhi Raupō – Taranaki Base Hospital Renal Unit, New Zealand

Commissioned by Te Whatu Ora
Designed by Warren and Mahoney

Mental Health Design

Supported by Gerflor - Gradus

Lead judge: Beatrice Fraenkel, Design in Mental Health Network, UK
Panel judges: Christine Chadwick, Archus, Canada; Femke Feenstra, Gortemaker Algra Feenstra architects, Netherlands

Winner: Campbelltown Hospital Redevelopment, Australia

Commissioned by Health Infrastructure NSW
Designed by Billard Leece Partnership

Highly commended: Trinity Building for the SWLSTG Mental Health NHS Trust, UK

Commissioned by South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust
Designed by C.F. Moller Architects UK

Highly commended: Skaraborg Psychiatric Hospital department, Sweden

Commissioned by Västfastigheter
Designed by Semren & Månsson Arkitekter

Highly commended: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Hospital Korbeel and Patio

Commissioned by Groep Zorg H. Familie vzw
Designed by VK architects+engineers

Product and Technology Design Innovation

Lead judge: Danny Gibson, MJ Medical, UK
Panel judges: Tom Stables, Royal College of Art, UK; Andrew Frost, MTS Health, UK

Winner: Nobi Smart Lamps

Designed by Watif Design Agency & Nobi Smart Lamps

Highly commended: Guldmann Trainer Module – Trafford General Hospital

Commissioned by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Developed and designed by Guldmann

Highly commended: BeaconMedaes Central Destruction Unit

Designed, installed and maintained by Medclair and BeaconMedaes UK

Highly commended: Pathmaker

Designed by MySphera
Implemented by East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust with support of Vitalhub

Design Research Project

Supported by Medical Architecture

Lead judge: Dr Göran Lindahl PhD, Chalmers University, Sweden
Panel judge: Grant Mills, UCL, UK

Winner: Building for pandemic resiliency: A comparative analysis of multiple facilities across the US military health system

Authored by Deborah Wingler, PhD, HKS, USA; Rutali Joshi, PhD, HKS, USA; Abhishek Bhargava, PhD, WSP, USA; Brenda McDermott, Defense Health Agency, USA; Nolan Rome, WSP, USA; and Brent Willson, HKS, USA

Highly commended: Exploring the effect of physical environment on resident’s wellbeing and staff’s care practice of dementia care facilities in Sweden and Canada: An international longitudinal study

Authored by Sook Young Lee, PhD, Yonsei University, South Korea; Lillian Hung, PhD, RN, University of British Columbia, Canada; and Habib Chaudhury, PhD, Simon Fraser University, Canada

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.