Healthcare Architects & Designers

At ONE our healthcare architects and inhouse multi-disciplinary team design buildings and environments that improve patient care, enhance staff wellbeing, and support the efficient delivery of healthcare services. As an award-winning design company, we combine masterplanning, architecture, interior design, engineering and landscape architecture to create sustainable, compliant and welcoming spaces for patients and healthcare professionals alike.

Over the last decade, our team has delivered more than £600 million of healthcare projects across the UK and internationally. Our experience spans every scale across the NHS and other providers – from major new build facilities such as the Birmingham Dental Hospital and School of Dentistry, the RICS Award winner for Design through Innovation, right through to smaller refurbishments. Each project reflects our commitment to design excellence, collaboration, and innovation.

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Innovative Healthcare Architecture and Design

We understand that healthcare environments must balance patient comfort, clinical functionality and operational efficiency. ONE’s architects and engineers use the latest digital tools, evidence-based design principles, and sustainable materials to create spaces that promote recovery and long-term resilience.

Our healthcare architecture and engineering expertise covers all aspects of the healthcare estate, including estate masterplanning and enabling development, with vast experience in new builds, extensions, refurbishments and redevelopments:

• Acute and community hospitals as well as Integrated Care Centres – facilities delivering inpatient, outpatient, and rehabilitation services,
• Primary care and medical centres – functional, accessible, and future-proof environments for GPs and community services.
• Mental health and dementia care – therapeutic spaces that prioritise safety, dignity and wellbeing.
• Care homes, extra care facilities and hospices – compassionate, homely designs that support end-of-life and long-term care.
• Elective hubs – dedicated facilities for planned surgical procedures, designed to maximise efficiency, reduce waiting times.

• Community diagnostic centres – facilities providing imaging, testing, and diagnostic services in accessible community settings to improve capacity and reduce pressure on hospitals.

• Education, research, and support facilities – such as sterile services departments and training spaces, car parks and accommodation for keyworkers and healthcare staff.

Each project is tailored to clinical requirements, user needs and sustainability goals, ensuring healthcare facilities remain adaptable for years to come.

Our Integrated Design Approach

As a multi-disciplinary practice, ONE offers a seamless service that brings together architecture, civil and structural engineering, mechanical and electrical engineering, interior design, landscape architecture and smart assets consultancy, all working at the forefront of Building Information Modelling. This integration ensures technical precision, design consistency, and efficiency from concept through to delivery.

Our healthcare architects and engineers work closely with NHS Trusts, private healthcare providers, developers, and contractors to define robust project briefs, meet complex compliance standards (HTM and HBN), and manage live-site projects with minimal disruption.

Our inhouse landscape architects maximise the natural and green environment for well-being purposes while promoting biodiversity, for example, through utilising principles of the healing landscape, wandering loops in outdoor spaces or memory gardens for dementia patients.

Key aspects of our approach include:

• Patient-centred design – promoting wellbeing through light, flow, and connection to nature.
• Efficient workflows – layouts that support clinical teams and operational performance.
• Regulatory compliance – meeting NHS standards and local planning requirements.
• Sustainability – integrating renewable technologies and low-carbon design to help clients in their journey to Net Zero.

Recognised Award-Winning Excellence in Healthcare Architecture

ONE has received numerous awards for its contribution to healthcare design, including:

• Architectural Practice of the Year – Healthcare Estates (IHEEM)
• Healthcare Project of the Year – Structural Timber Awards
• Sustainable Achievement – Healthcare Estates (IHEEM)
• Best Carbon Reduction Initiative Award – Building Better Healthcare Awards
• Integration and Collaborative Working Award and People’s Choice Award – Constructing Excellence South West
• IStructE Midlands Award for Healthcare Structures
• Design through Innovation – RICS

These achievements highlight the trust our clients place in us and the measurable impact our designs have on healthcare delivery.

Work With ONE’s Healthcare Architects, Engineers and Landscape Architects

Whether you need full healthcare architecture services or selected design support, ONE’s approach allows flexibility and the ability for clients to appoint a single multi-disciplinary team without the complexity of multiple contracts. We deliver projects across the UK and internationally, adapting to the distinct requirements of each healthcare provider.

Contact us today to discuss how our healthcare architects and wider design team can help you plan, design, and deliver your next healthcare facility.