Healthcare Design Award 2026

June 10, 2026

Explore the AIA Healthcare Design Award 2026 recipients—recognized as the best in health care building design, health care planning, and health care design-oriented research.

Healthcare Design Award
Hope Plaza, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
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Honoring the best in health care design

The AIA Healthcare Design Award recognizes innovative projects that help solve aesthetic, civic, urban, and social problems while also being functional and sustainable. Project types include outpatient centers, hospital expansions, diagnostic and treatment facilities, community-based clinics, children’s hospitals, and wellness centers.

Hope Plaza, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center

Hope Plaza, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center

At the base of the San Gabriel Mountains in Duarte, California, this outpatient cancer center consolidates care into a one-stop destination, integrating patient-centered planning, daylight-driven design, and healing landscapes to support wellness, efficiency, and a more humane treatment experience.
Eskenazi Health Thomas & Arlene Grande Campus

Eskenazi Health Thomas & Arlene Grande Campus

Serving Indianapolis’s Northeast Corridor, this community-centered health care campus transforms a previously underutilized site into a vibrant hub for medical, mental health, and social services, integrating green space, inclusive design, and holistic care to advance health equity.
Kyabirwa Surgical Center Aerial View

Kyabirwa Surgical Center

Located near the White Nile in rural Uganda, this off-grid health care campus delivers critical surgical services to underserved communities through climate-responsive design, solar-powered infrastructure, and locally sourced materials, creating a resilient and dignified model for equitable care.
UC San Francisco, Joan & Sanford I. Weill Neurosciences Building

UC San Francisco, Joan & Sanford I. Weill Neurosciences Building

At UCSF’s Mission Bay campus in San Francisco, this interdisciplinary research and clinical facility unites neurology, psychiatry, and neurosurgery, combining advanced laboratories with patient-centered environments and light-filled collaborative spaces to accelerate breakthroughs in brain health.
UCSF Stad Center for Pediatric Pain, Palliative, and Integrative Medicine Entry

UCSF Pediatric Stad Center

In San Francisco, this integrative pediatric clinic brings together chronic illness, therapy, and palliative care into a unified “healing device,” where nature-inspired, multisensory environments from interactive digital features to daylight-filled communal spaces support comfort, curiosity, and whole-child wellness.
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