Marlon Blackwell creates Arkansas paediatric clinic with vivid red facade
American firm Marlon Blackwell Architects has created a bright red medical facility for children that is meant to stand apart from its bland, suburban-style neighbours. More
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Restoration work completes on Louis Kahn's Salk Institute in California
The Salk Institute's worn teak windows have been cleaned up, repaired and replaced as part of the conservation of the coastal Californian laboratory designed by American architect Louis Kahn. More
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dRMM builds Oldham Maggie's Centre around a courtyard with rippling glass walls
A courtyard with undulating glass walls descends from the base of the stilted wooden structure of this Maggie's Centre for cancer care in Oldham, England, which has been designed by London studio dRMM. More
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OOPEAA builds wood and zinc sauna on the shore of a tiny Finnish island
Finnish architecture office OOPEAA has completed a log cabin-style sauna on an island in Helsinki's archipelago that is topped with a zinc roof incorporating dormer windows. More
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Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital combines concrete and brick with colourful details and big windows
Sheppard Robson and John Copper Architecture have completed a children's hospital in Johannesburg, which features brick facades and large windows that allow patients to take in the landscaping. More
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Oslo psychiatric centre by Hille Melbye features planted courtyards and decorative brickwork
Patients of Hille Melbye's psychiatric centre in Oslo are welcomed by a decorative brick building, which is surrounded by landscaped courtyards designed to act as an extension of therapy. More
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NORD Architects' Copenhagen hospice aims to provide "a unique place for the final journey"
Copenhagen studio NORD Architects has completed a hospice for palliative patients in the heart of the Danish capital, with golden facades featuring curving cutouts that surround quiet courtyards. More
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Steven Holl unveils Shanghai cultural complex to be built from white concrete
Steven Holl Architects has revealed plans to build a health and cultural complex in Shanghai, comprising a pair of white concrete blocks punctured by the firm's signature cutouts. More
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Anxiety-reducing orthodontic clinic features serene interiors and garden views
Birch-framed skylights and windows offer garden views to patients at this dental clinic in the Netherlands, designed by Studio Prototype. More
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Philippines hospital designed by CAZA to serve as model for rural healthcare
New York firm CAZA has unveiled design for a hospital and trauma centre in a popular beach town in the Philippines, which will feature stone cladding, verdant courtyards and light-filled interior spaces. More
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Zaha Hadid Architects reveals plans for Infinitus Plaza in Guangzhou
Zaha Hadid Architects has begun work on a multipurpose complex in Guangzhou, which is modelled on the looping infinity symbol used in mathematics. More
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Haptic designs elderly housing for Norway to encourage residents to socialise
Haptic has been selected to create a housing complex in a picturesque Norwegian town with a growing elderly population. More
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Óscar Miguel Ares Álvares creates "abstract and hard" care home inspired by arid surroundings
Rows of concrete fins shade the large windows of this nursing home near the Spanish city of Valladolid, which features rooms clustered around a landscaped central courtyard. More
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Disability support centre by Architekten CM features tinted concrete ramps and retractable awnings
This extension to a day-care centre for disabled adults in the Swiss town of Stans has been kitted out with muted red awnings and spiralling pastel-tinged walkways. More
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ZGF wraps Arizona medical facility in layer of creased metal panels
American firm ZGF Architects has completed a cancer centre in downtown Phoenix with a faceted, copper-coloured screen that evokes the scaly skin of a desert reptile. More
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Rogers Stirk Harbour's £160 million cancer treatment centre opens at London hospital
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has completed a dedicated cancer treatment centre at Guy's Hospital in London, which welcomes its first patients today. More
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Ambulance station by Architectenforum features plant-covered walls and a curved roof
This ambulance station in the Dutch town of Zeist features a curved wooden framework and sloping walls covered with climbing plants to help it blend into its woodland setting (+ slideshow). More
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Architecture Building Culture adds housing units to recovery centre in Portland
Portland studio Architecture Building Culture has created a gabled structure to accommodate more residents at a local communal home for single mothers (+ slideshow). More
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Iwan Baan photographs Diller Scofidio + Renfro's Vagelos Educational Building in New York
Photographer Iwan Baan has released new images of Diller Scofidio + Renfro's recently completed medical building for Columbia University, which trades a typical educational facility's "boring" horizontal layout for vertical organisation (+ slideshow). More
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AGi Architects completes cardiac rehabilitation centre overlooking Kuwait Bay
With stone-clad walls and a deep red atrium, this medical centre in Kuwait was designed by AGi architects to look more like a cultural building than a health facility (+ slideshow). More