A rural hospital in Bangladesh is named the world's best new building
The prestigious architectural prize celebrates the 80-bed hospital's human-centered design, built in harmony with the waterlogged local environment with a modest budget and local low-cost materials.
Most hospitals don't have a canal to collect rainwater.
That's one of the unusual features that earned a major architecture honor â the 2021 RIBA International Prize â for Friendship Hospital, an 80-bed rural community hospital in Bangladesh.
"This hospital is a celebration of a building dedicated to humans," said French architect Odile
