Exist hospitals with fascinating architecture, designed to be the most beautiful in the world. Designs that wanted to get out of the classic and sterile concept of white walls and concrete box volumes, to arrive at lively shapes, captivating colors and interesting decorative elements. In some cases, the design studios even had the objective of wanting to create places that more than hospitals they looked like hotels, to improve patient care at least on a psychological level.
After seeing the most beautiful design kindergartens in the world and the most beautiful schools in Italy, the time has come to take a look at another category that is generally considered only for its functional aspect, and to do so let’s start with an Italian opera. Among the most beautiful hospitals in the world we present the“Pietro Barilla” Children’s Hospital of Parma, a structure whose construction is mainly due to Luca Barilla of the Barilla Group, Paolo Pizzarotti of Impresa Pizzarotti and Carlo Gabbi of the Cariparma Foundation. Dedicated to Pietro Barilla, it is a highly humanized building spread over four floors above ground and a basement. The architectural design by Policreo and OBR led to a hospital with fascinating architecture on the one hand, and on the other to a place where everything, from the structure to the furnishings, from the spaces to the finishes is inspired by the criteria of environmental psychology.
Barcelona instead wins the merit of hosting what is considered themost beautiful hospital in the world absolutely, so much so that it has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. L’Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau it is the largest building by the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner who conceived it as a garden city, and is one of the best examples of public modernism. L’Hospital of the Holy Cross and of San Paolo was a Hospital in effect until 2009, while today it is a museum and a research and culture center.
In Hong Kong, a hospital among the most beautiful in the world because conceived as a luxury hotel. The Matilda International Hospital it is a colonial style building in white marble and pink plaster with grit floors, marble arches, soaring ceilings and verandas overlooking the gulf of Hong Kong. Built on the summit of Victoria Peak, one of the most popular neighborhoods on the island, in recent years it has undergone further expansions due to its attractiveness also for the avant-garde treatments it offers.
