Top 10 Hospital Architecture Companies Redefining Smart Healthcare Design

Hospital architecture is a specialized design and construction of hospitals and other healthcare facilities. This type of architecture must have an understanding of all the special needs that come with providing medical services. The design ensures comfort, safety, and well-being of everyone involved in using the facility. Hospitals and other healthcare facilities are built with complexity, functionality, efficiency, accessibility, and aesthetics. Architects closely work with medical professionals, facility managers, and stakeholders to create designs appropriate for hospitals needs and patients who will utilize it.

Moreover, flexibility and adaptability are involved in hospital designing. A hospital should respond rapidly and immediately to changes in patients’ needs, advancement in medical technology, and other factors. These changes must be designed by specialized architects to meet the evolving needs. Hospitals ensure safe care for patients, delivering high-quality care, and have adequate numbers of hand hygiene stations and isolation rooms.

Driven by these industry advancements, Fortune Business Insights estimates that the market for hospital architecture was at USD 12.47 billion in 2025. It is expected to reach USD 23.00 billion by 2034, with a remarkable CAGR of 7.1% during the forecast period.

Fortune Business Insights Lists Top 10 Architecture Firms Shaping the Next Generation of Hospitals

1. HKS Inc.

Founded in 1939, HKS, Inc. is a well-known international architect & designer firm, headquartered in the U.S. HKS has a reputation for designing iconic sports venues, including SoFi Stadium and AT&T Stadium.

The company designed and built the Apollo Hospital in Ayanambakkam, India, which offers 200 beds over a total area of 140,000 square feet and will serve as the prototype for HKS’s modular design. The 200-bed hospital is designed using 24-bed inpatient towers as the central component of the building, contained in a modular pod. The modular design significantly streamlined developing and constructing new Apollo Hospitals, thereby enabling Apollo to expand quality healthcare across India.

2. HDR Inc.

HDR, Inc. is a professional service firm, headquartered in the U.S., with many global operations, including engineering, architecture, and environmental services. The company provides construction management for a variety of infrastructure projects globally. HDR serves a number of industries, some of which include transportation, water supply, healthcare, and power generation.

In March 2023, HDR was selected by the Henry Ford Health System to serve as the architecture and engineering team for the USD 2.5 billion expansion to the Henry Ford Hospital’s Detroit Campus. The expansion includes a new hospital building that contains patient rooms and a larger, updated emergency department, an expanded laboratory and clinical areas.

3. Perkins&Will

Perkins&Will, headquartered in the U.S., is a worldwide renowned architecture and design firm, providing services to enhance both ecological and human well-being. The company offers architecture, branded environments, interior design, urban design, and even building planning, allowing clients to achieve their performance goals in their projects.

In April 2024, a new multispecialty care and micro-hospital facility in Indiana was created by Perkins&Will for UChicago Medicine. This 132,000-square-foot facility provides high-quality medical care with a focus on providing the highest level of personalized care in a family-oriented environment. Perkins&Will designed the newly built facility with a commitment to provide high-level of efficiency, economy, and adaptability. The unique and innovative project incorporates a hospital with eight beds, an emergency department, an imaging center, ambulatory surgery center, cancer center, along with outpatient specialty clinics.

4. BDP

Founded in 1961 and headquartered in the U.K., BDP is one of the major hospital architecture companies. The company’s purpose is to create, build, and provide design, architecture and engineering services to various sectors, including healthcare, education, residential and commercial buildings, landscape architecture, and urban design and planning services. With studios worldwide, including the U.K, India, and China, BDP focuses on integrated design solutions.

In October 2024, BDP announced that its design team will architect a new Queen Elizabeth Hospital, expected to inaugurate around 2030. The company will utilize its healthcare design expertise to develop a detailed plan to create supportive and healing healthcare.

5. Foster + Partners

Foster + Partners is a global studio that provides architectural, engineering, infrastructure, and design services. The business provides retrofit, landscape & urban design, environmental and structural engineering, along with industrial design in relation to large-scale infrastructure developments. It is headquartered in the U.K., London.

In January 2026, Foster + Partners and CannonDesign partnered to create an innovative Cancer Care Pavilion for Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. The new medical center will enhance the way patients experience world-class facilities, a better environment for conducting research, and efficient healthcare by the staff.

6. CPG Corporations

CPG Corporation is a Singapore-based global firm, developing and managing infrastructure and building facilities, offering integrated solutions from design to management, with a strong history tracing back to Singapore's Public Works Department (PWD) and famous projects such as Changi Airport and Gardens by the Bay.

Ng Teng Fong General Hospital is a major project where CPG Corporation served as prime architect and architect of record and is marking its 10th anniversary as a model of patient-centric, sustainable hospital design. The campus emphasizes natural light, cross-ventilation, and green integration, helping reduce energy use and improve patient well-being.

7. White Arkitekter

Headquartered in Sweden and founded in 1951, White Arkitekter is one of the leading architectural firms in Scandinavia that specializes in sustainable and human-centered architecture. It is also known for its social responsibility, which aims to improve lifestyle through modern architecture.

In August 2025, White Arkitekter inaugurated two of Sweden’s major hospital buildings in Malmo. These new facilities show significant progress made to improve the overall quality of care that patients will receive, as well as better working conditions for the employees. The design is based on the role of space in a patients’ well-being, along with extensive collaboration with the healthcare staff.

8. Dar

Dar Al-Handasah (Dar) is one of the world’s leading consultancies, providing consultancy to major clients around the world, including designing, planning, engineering, sustainable consultation and services, along with project management for various types of buildings, cities, transportation, civil infrastructure, and the environment. The company operates from its headquarters in Lebanon.

In January 2025, Dubai Healthcare City Authority (DHCA) announced a USD 35 billion expansion plan that includes a new purpose-built medical complex designed by Design and Architecture Bureau (DAR), covering about 5,800 m2 with adaptable spaces for clinics, surgical facilities, labs, and offices. This reflects Dubai’s push toward sustainable, smart hospital architecture and positions DAR at the center of key UAE healthcare infrastructure developments.

9. KEO International Consultants

KEO International Consultants, headquartered in Kuwait, is a premier, multidisciplinary consulting firm founded in 1964, specializing in architecture, engineering, planning, and project/construction management (AEP/PMCM). Known for designing iconic, sustainable projects, it employs over 2,600 professionals from 60+ nations across the Middle East and internationally.

In June 2024, KEO-designed Kuwait Center for Nephrology & Kidney Transplant officially opened. The specialized medical facility is an extension of Hamid Essa Hospital complex in Shuwaikh, Kuwait was designed by KEO and includes inpatient bed, ICU and isolation rooms, dialysis and transplant services, and radiology and emergency departments, with a layout prioritizing patient comfort and operational efficiency.

10. Billard Leece Partnership

Billard Leece Partnership (BLP) is an architectural firm with multiple major studios across Australia, with headquarters in Australia. They are widely recognized for designing complex environments that promote health, wellbeing, and human connection.

In September 2025, Billard Leece Partnership launched a new Singapore studio (BLP Asia) to serve as a regional hub for healthcare and other projects in Asia, building on its portfolio of hospital designs such as Hong Kong Children’s Hospital and North District Hospital.

How Will Innovation and Sustainability Shape the Next Phase of Hospital Architecture?

The architectural practice of designing hospitals will continue to evolve to include flexibility of use and function as well as integration of technology into health care. Modularity, incorporating nature into building designs, utilizing digital technologies such as AI, IoT, and telemedicine, redesigning spaces to provide a more hospitable and comfortable experience, focusing on sustainability, and employing data-informed planning & design have played a vital role in the architectural evolution of hospitals.

With the changes taking place in health care, there is an increasing demand for hospitals to be designed with sustainability, intelligence, and a focus on the needs of patients. Hospital architecture professionals have a major role in creating efficient and high-standard hospitals that will serve the community for a long period of time.