Glasgow Hospitals, Strathclyde Medical Buildings, Healthcare Scotland Design Projects

Glasgow Hospital Buildings

Health Architecture in Strathclyde, western Scotland : Designs + Architects

post updated 9 September 2023

We have selected what we feel are the key examples of Glasgow Hospital Buildings, in west Scotland.

Robin House by Hoskins Architects:

photo © Andrew Lee

We cover completed healthcare buildings andnew building designs across Strathclyde.

Glasgow Hospital Architecture selections below with links to many individual project pages.

Glasgow Healthcare Building

Major Healthcare Building in Glasgow

Maggies Gartnavel
Design: Rem Koolhaas Architect – OMA

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Maggies Gartnavel
“Having revisited this building I feel my initial positive response to it has been underlined. The simple uncluttered spaces are now softened and humanised by various items of furniture and personal effects, the result feeling harmonious.”
– Adrian Welch, Editor.

Glasgow Hospital Building Designs

Major Hospital Buildings in Glasgow, alphabetical:

Glasgow Royal Infirmary Intensive Care Unit Phase 2
Design: Reiach and Hall

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Glasgow Royal Infirmary
Refurbishment of existing ward to create new 10 bed unit and construction of new roof top pavilion containing ancillary staff and visitor accommodation For NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Clydebank
Design: Holmes

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Golden Jubilee National Hospital
The new main entrance and reception points at specialist West of Scotland Heart and Lung Centre.

Neonatal Building Southern General

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Neonatal Building Southern General
A new 3 storey extension was constructed adjacent to the existing maternity block as part of the first stage of the £750m redevelopment of the Southern General Hospital site in Glasgow. In total, 5800 sqm of additional floor space was added with 1200 sq m of this being utilised as plant room space. A high quality of material was used throughout, including; sandstone ashlar, terracotta rainscreen tiles and anodised aluminium tiles together with planar glazing, powder coated aluminium louvres and floating stainless steel mesh panels (brise soleil).

New South Glasgow Hospital Campus – Adult and Children’s Hospitals
Design: IBI Nightingale, formerly Nightingale Associates

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Southern General Hospital
Scotland’s biggest ever hospital building project, the New Southern Hospital in Glasgow, is entirely publicly funded. One of the most advanced hospitals in the UK it now forms the largest critical care complex in Scotland.

New Stobhill Hospital

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New Stobhill Hospital
The building entrance area includes a full length, full height, glazed, public arcade, flooded with natural light.

New Victoria Hospital, Queen’s Park, south side of Glasgow.
Design: HLM Architects

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New Victoria Hospital Glasgow
This new building has been constructed under the Government’s PFI procurement route for the provision of major new healthcare facilities in the city.

Glasgow Health Buildings

Health Buildings in Glasgow, alphabetical:

Beatson Institute, Garscube Estate, north west Glasgow
Design: Reiach and Hall Architects

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Beatson Institute
The new building includes seminar rooms, a lecture theatre, social areas and laboratories with support spaces for 250 staff.

Gartnavel Royal Hospital
Design: macmon chartered architects

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Gartnavel Royal Hospital
The £19m purpose built hospital provides 117 beds and other facilities in a bright and spacious environment which is patient focused and challenges existing mental health design conceptions. The design was developed by macmon architects from a concept and public sector comparator design prepared by Young and Gault Architects.

Maggies Centre Glasgow
Design: Page Park Architects

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Maggies Centre Glasgow
Maggies’ Centres are a charity dedicated to offering advice and palliative care to people affected by cancer. They eschew anything ‘institutional’ and instead they advocate light, bright, cheerful linking spaces with views out to gardens and greenery. As well as providing support through counselling (which requires control of privacy) the centres also have a welcoming kitchen able to demonstrate cooking and dietary advice, a comfortable, warm Sitting Room and a larger Relaxation Room for exercising and listening to music or for larger meetings or group discussions.

Royal Alexandria Hospital Paisley
Design: Burns Design

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Royal Alexandria Hospital Paisley
New Reception, Cafe & Entrance Lobby at Royal Alexandria Hospital, Paisley – Burns Design

Small Animal Hospital, Garscube Estate
Design: Archial Architects

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Small Animal Hospital
The design challenge here for the architects was how to create a large hospital building without ruining the beautiful green space: the solution was to hide much of the new building under the ground.

Health Buildings in Strathclyde

Health Buildings in Strathclyde, alphabetical:

Children’s Hospital Loch Lomond – Robin House
Design: Gareth Hoskins Architects

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Children’s Hospital Loch Lomond

Erskine Care Unit
Design: Cooper Cromar Architects

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Erskine Care Unit

Forth Valley Hospital

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Forth Valley Hospital

Marie Curie Hospice at Stobhill Hospital
Architects: JDDK (Jane Darbyshire and David Kendall Ltd.)

photo : Keith Hunter Photography
Marie Curie Hospice