Following last week’s announcement of the 2015 AIA/AAH award winning projects, a number of publications featured the winning projects. From Fast Co’s feature of hospital designs that improve patient’s lives to Architect’s project features, award-winning healthcare projects made a splash.
We’re excited our work on the Fifth XiangYa Hospital in China counted among the winners. The Hospital in a Garden is embedded in the natural landscape of Xianguling Park. The landscape sequence and progression choreographs the visitor experience from the urban to the natural. People filtering into the hospital from the plaza view or enter the Healing Garden, both a place of reflection and focal point. Above the Healing Garden, stepped terraces planted with vibrant colored azaleas and rhododendrons lead up and into the mountain paths. Spaces, services and systems are sized, placed and formed to support the holistic experience of the patients as they heal. In addition to the provision of the best healthcare, patients and their families are empowered by transparency and access, including: access to outdoor terraces and gardens, access to natural light penetrating deep into the space, access to views of nature, gardens and the sky.
What was your favorite project feature?
Related:
First Look: Fifth XiangYa Hospital
We are honored to share PAYETTE has received two 2026 Green Good Design Awards from The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies—Land’s Sake Farm and The Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard.
“Green GOOD DESIGN identifies and emphasizes the world’s most important examples of sustainable design and works to develop a public awareness program that informs the general public about which global companies are doing the best job in ecological and sustainable design for our world. Architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning projects, as well as product, packaging, and graphic design projects from over 30 nations were honored with the 2026 Green GOOD DESIGN Award.”
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