HEALTHCARE ARCHITECTURE AWARD 2010
MEDICAL MOLINO BUILDING
 This hospital specializes in mammary diseases and imaging providing advanced treatment. The client who has contributed in the development of the area for many years sympathized with the idea to establish a center for breast cancer treatment and prevention and realized the project. The building houses an NPO, 9 clinics, convenience store, pharmacy and shops and amenities to improve women's QOL.
Location Kawasaki, Kanagawa
Number of bed -
Site area 3,214m2
Total floor area 6,317m2
Structure Reinforced concrete; five stories
Completion December 2008
Architect Kajima Design

 HEALTHCARE ARCHITECTURE AWARD 2010
NAGAOKA CITY CHILD-REARING SUPPORT FACILITY
TEKU-TEKU
 Child-rearing support facility Teku-teku consists of a 1,300 square meter buildeing, a 2ha park and a riverbank 1.2 km long designed as a whole environment. The building has circle, triangle and square shaped masses housing play space, community space and gymnasium, respectively. It is intended that the building provides a winter play space to the region which is often snowed heavily. The facility is attracting much attention and has received 100 thousand visitors and many technical visits in the first 4 months.
Location Nagaoka, Niigata
Number of bed 199
Site area 20,476m2
Total floor area 1,282m2
Structure Steel frame; one story
Completion March 2009
Architect Choken Sekkei + Yamashita Lab., Nagaoka Institute of Design.

 HEALTHCARE ARCHITECTURE AWARD 2010
KURUME UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
 Kurume University Medical Center, formerly Kurume National Hospital, is a hospital with 300 beds forming a medical service system with the university's main hospital and adjacent rehabilitation center. The ward is a contemporary interpretation of the Nightingale ward. 4-bed rooms and single rooms align by turns facing a staff station to provide surveillance and sense of being cared. Access to the center's three wings, outpatient, ward and rehabilitation, radiate from a circular entrance hall for easy wayfinding.
Location Kurume, Fukuoka
Number of bed 300
Site area 49,195m2
Total floor area 22,548m2
Structure Steel frame; five stories
Completion April 2007
Architect Nikken Sekkei
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