AHA

Architects Collective, F+P Architects and SWAP Architecture are pooling their expertise across projects to create a leading Healthcare Architecture cooperation.

We are pleased to announce that we, as AHA partners from Architects Collective, together with Albert Wimmer ZT, have already received four architectural awards for the Healing Architecture of the Children’s and Adolescent Clinic in Freiburg:
Most recently, we were honored with the ICONIC AWARD 2025 – Best of Best in the category Healthcare Architecture, awarded by the German Design Council, as well as the newly introduced Callwey Award – Healing Architecture, where we proudly took first place in its debut year.
Earlier, we received the BIG SEE Architecture Award 2025, and in 2024 we were recognized as “Highly Commended” within the European Healthcare Design Award. The Children’s Clinic was also recently awarded DGNB Platinum certification in the overall assessment.

The Healthy Urban Oasis: Live Talk and Student Award Ceremony: On 13 November 2025, Architects Collective invites you to the audacity architecture talks series at the Prechtl Hall, TU Vienna. The topic of the evening is: “The Healthy Urban Oasis – Visionary Infrastructures for Urban Healthcare”, starting at 6:00 PM.
Following the talk, at 8:00 PM, the Architects Collective Student Award for Healthcare Architecture 2025 will be presented for the second time, in cooperation with TU Vienna.

At this year’s Archiball, our team from AHA Austrian Healthcare Architects was delighted to receive the Best Dressed Award. The highlight of our colorful jerseys: they were designed and creatively crafted by the children of our employees – a true eye-catcher on the field. A few impressions from the tournament can be found in the video.

We have won—1st place for Austrian Healthcare Architects! Our cross-project healthcare architecture cooperation was commissioned to plan the new construction of Zentralklinik Ottakring.

With the restructuring and service expansion of the Favoriten Clinic, a central building for a new central emergency room, the departments of cardiology, internal medicine, neurology as well as pulmonology is to be built in place of the outdated pavilion structure. F+P Architekten are in charge as general planner.

In Linz, a compact children's center is being developed at the Kepler University Hospital, bringing together specialized medical care for children and adolescents in one location. Our competition design won 2nd place.

The design strategies of Healing Architecture aim to meet the needs of everyone in the healthcare sector.

We at AHA are bringing our technical know-how together across projects, creating new synergies and establishing a new brand for forward-thinking architecture.

Healing Architecture creates a culture of soothing encounter and interaction in Healthcare Facilities.

Our aim is to meet the highly complex and constantly expanding list of planning requirements for healthcare facilities in the best possible way.

Healthcare Facilities Breakout Sessions: A series of talks organised by the Technical University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna.

Architects Collective and SWAP Architektur are part of the Technical University of Vienna’s Healthcare Facilities Breakout Sessions - A series of online discussions on the interface between medicine and architecture. The series is part of the University’s postgraduate master's program "Healthcare Facilities,” a cooperation between the Medical University of Vienna and the Technical University of Vienna beginning in autumn 2023.

The moderators of these series of talks are Michael Hiesmayr from MedUni Vienna and Christian Kühn from the Faculty of Architecture at Vienna University of Technology.

The first session was dedicated to the consequences of the corona pandemic on current and future planning, titled "Pandemic resilience - what have we learned?" Partner architects Svenja Partheimüller and Christoph Falkner from SWAP Architektur, as well as the infectiologist and hygienist Walter Zingg from the University Hospital Zurich were part of the panel.

The fourth session titled "Profit with BIM - Digital Hospital Planning” was dedicated to Building Information Modelling, or BIM for short, which makes it possible to map all relevant information on the construction and operation of a building in a common model that can be accessed by different stakeholders, from the planning architects to the specialist planners to the facility managers. During the session, architects Sonja Paar-Tschuppik, Marion Faes and Richard Klinger from Architects Collective as well as Josef Newertal from the Vienna Health Association discussed the benefits and limitations of BIM.

The sessions can be accessed here:
https://www.youtube.com/@healthcarefacilities

Healing Architecture is prioritized in the planning process alongside technique and functionality.