Designer Kiseung Lee of Helsinki wants people to fill stockings with more vital gifts this Christmas: donations to the blood bank. More »

Square box windows provide seating areas at a hospital unit in Bath, UK, for sick and premature babies. More »

Waiting rooms inside this red-striped health centre by architects Miguel Barahona and Luis Castillo overlook the Sierra de Gardor mountains in southern Spain. More »

This medical research centre in Lisbon by Indian architects Charles Correa Associates has a curved stone form with circular cut-aways. More »

Greek studio KLab Architecture created this pharmacy in Athens by wrapping a round facade punctured by Braille lettering over the existing octagonal building, with plants occupying the space in between. More »

This medical research building at the University of California in San Francisco by Rafael Viñoly Architects projects out from a forest hillside, supported on steel truss stems that fan upwards from the ground. More »

This pharmacy in Athens by Greek studio KLab Architecture has a branching facade and green panels suspended from the ceiling inside. More »

Here are some photos of a medical centre in Milagro, Spain, by Doblee Architects of Pamplona. More »

Here are some photos of the recently-completed Maggie’s Centre Cheltenham, a cancer care facility designed by London practice MJP Architects.  More »

Work starts today on Maggie’s Centre Gartnavel, a cancer-care facility in Glasgow, Scotland, designed by Office for Metropolitan Architecture. More »

Here’s a dental clinic by Openlab Architects of Portugal, where the waiting room and reception are separated by a curtain of twisting metal strips. More »

London design consultancy Priestmangoode have sent us a short video of their health spa-inspired Recovery Lounge concept for hospital wards. More »

Japanese designers Nendo have completed the interior of a mental health clinic in Akasaka, Tokyo, where none of the doors open and patients and staff instead move around the building by opening sections of the walls. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More »

Architects Foster + Partners have completed a hospital in Bath, UK, clad in aluminium shingles. More »