Our proposal for the competition for the refurbishment of the Puerta de Hierro Hospital in Madrid, promoted last year, highlights this remarkable building designed by the modern architect Josep Bosch Aymerich. In this project we managed to enhance the value of the unique original architecture, based on the firm conviction of the importance of preserving modern architecture. In … [Read more...]
Logroño Specialities and Major Outpatient Surgery Centre
How can we give more to the city and users in the case of projects with high functional requirements such as hospitals? This is the question from which we approach our healthcare projects. Our answer is to add environmental values such as natural light, spatial amplitude and landscape integration to a highly technological and efficient organisation. The new … [Read more...]
SJM Kidney Transplant & EMB Neurosurgery Hospitals
The SJM Kidney Transplant & EMB Neurosurgery Hospitals in Kuwait are one of our most recent projects. This commission, already at an advanced design stage, has taken as its starting point a programme we had already worked with for a different location in Kuwait City, the Kidney Transplant Hospital. It now moves to a new site on the waterfront, and is expanded with a … [Read more...]
Omni Clinic. New Medical Architecture Project
Omni Clinic is a multi-specialty medical clinic that will be opening in Kuwait in the near future. The design that AGi architects has created provides a clear volumetric lay-out and an appealing exterior skin for this new medical architecture project. In the interior, well-dimensioned spaces and natural materials will create a welcoming atmosphere for patients and their … [Read more...]
Healthcare architecture in Kuwait: new project by AGi architects
The concept of public space is fundamental in our commercial and cultural projects, as well as in the healthcare architecture projects developed by our office. After finishing in 2014 the Al-Ghanim Clinic and, in 2015, the Hisham A. Alsager Cardiac Hospital, for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, AGi architects is currently developing a new hospital project, a center … [Read more...]
Architecture as a pillar of health
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts"; That is how Aristotle summed up the foundations of holism. It is analyzing and understanding the systems as an integrated and comprehensive set which is what ultimately is going to determine the behavior of its diverse parts. But it doesn't believe that this "whole" is just a sum of its parts, but the synergies between them … [Read more...]
Ali Mohammed T. Al-Ghanim Clinic, “Highly Commended” at World Architecture Festival Awards 2015
It competed along with ten other shortlisted projects in the Completed Buildings Health category. This Clinic won a WAF Award in 2013 in the Future Projects Health category. Another project by the firm has been a WAF finalist: AGi architects’ competition entry for the new Qatar Courthouse. This Honorable Mention is added to the four WAF awards won so far by AGi … [Read more...]
Healthcare and governmental projects shortlisted for WAF Awards 2015
Ali Mohammed T. Al-Ghanim Clinic will compete in the Completed Buildings Health category while Qatar Courthouse will compete in the Future Project Competition category. The design firm was the WAF Award 2014 winner in the Completed Buildings Religion category with “La Ascensión del Señor” Church, in Seville, Spain . Two projects developed by AGi architects, the … [Read more...]
Our healthcare architecture project, case study at Building Healthcare Middle East event in Dubai
AGi architects have shared their experience in healthcare architecture at the Architect’s Congress at Building Healthcare Exhibition & Conferences, held from 8-10 June 2015 in Dubai. Theevent has focused on the design of a healing environment and how it impacts patient safety, operations, and the financial success of a healthcare facility. Nasser Abulhasan, Principal and … [Read more...]
The Keys of Healthcare architecture: An interview with Bruno Gomes and Stefania Rendinelli
“ The concept of the hospital of the future will be much closer to the current concept of a hotel ” (Bruno Gomes) “ Nowadays you can’t talk about a healthcare typology” (Stefania Rendinelli) Bruno Gomes and Stefania Rendinelli, senior architects of AGi architects, have participated on some of our healthcare projects, as the Hisham A. Alsager Cardiac Rehabillitation Center and … [Read more...]