HOK’s London studio led the designs for the award-winning Harborne Hospital in Birmingham, UK, and Bon Secours Hospital Limerick in Ireland.
Two recently opened hospitals designed by HOK have earned recognition for their architecture and impact. The Building Better Healthcare (BBH) Awards named The Harborne Hospital in Birmingham its silver place winner for Best Healthcare Development over £75 million. The BBH Awards recognize excellence within the healthcare built environment, medical device and technology sectors.
Also this month, Property Industry Excellence Awards named HOK and design partner Reddy Architecture + Urbanism winners of the 2025 Architecture Award for their work on Bon Secours Hospital Limerick. The independently judged awards program honours the achievements, innovation and leadership shaping Ireland’s built environment, with this year’s awards also focusing on sustainability.
About The Harborne Hospital
This new 17,760-sq.-m. Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) specialist facility is located on the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB) Campus—a busy healthcare hub that serves nearly 80,000 patients annually.
The Harborne is a shared private/NHS facility, making it the first hospital in the UK to be built and financed by a developer for two tenants.
The seven-storey, 122-bed hospital expands capacity at QEHB and delivers a range of patient services, including cancer care. The Harborne’s facilities include a diagnostic and outpatient centre with MRI, CT, X-ray, fluoroscopy and ultrasound; five operating theatres; an endoscopy suite; a chemotherapy centre; and radiotherapy, with one linear accelerator and a future bunker for an MR linear accelerator.
The project achieved a BREEAM Very Good certification for sustainability.
About Bon Secours Hospital Limerick
This facility, which began accepting patients in September, is the first large hospital to open in Ireland in almost 20 years. With capacity to care for 50,000 patients annually, the 23,050-sq.-m., 96-bed hospital addresses a gap in medical services for Limerick’s growing population.
HOK and Reddy A+U provided architecture, medical planning and interior design services, with HOK’s Chicago office contributing to the project’s interiors. The clinical and architectural designs work together to support person-centred care, which encourages collaboration and shared decision-making between patients, family and care providers.
Natural and LED lighting, a high-performance envelope and the use of alternative energy sources help make the Limerick facility Bon Secours’ most sustainable hospital to date.