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Foster + Partners completes first ever hospital

Foster + Partners has completed its first ever hospital: this 6,000m2, three-storey building near Bath for Circle, Europe’s largest private healthcare partnership

The practice describes the CircleBath scheme as a ‘radical departure’ from traditional hospital design and ‘more comparable to a luxury hotel’.
 


Arranged around a double-height atrium, 30 patient bedrooms are housed in a rectangular upper volume clad in a reflective lattice of aluminium shingles. Spencer de Grey, Foster + Partners’ head of design, said: ‘[The design] is democratic, putting the patient at the heart of the system in a space that does not feel institutionalised and instead takes advantage of the rural setting, the light and the views.’

The scheme is one of a new wave of hospitals being designed by architectural superstars, including Richard Rogers and Hopkins Architects.
 
 
 
 
Source: Architect's Journal
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