A £60m children’s hospital, designed by Hopkins Architects and billed as “a hospital that does not feel like a hospital”, is due to open this autumn across the River Thames from the Palace of Westminster.


Welcoming wards
Welcoming wards


Evelina Children’s Hospital, developed by Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, has vivid colours and a huge, light-filled atrium containing a school, play area and cafe. Gleeson was design-and-build contractor, Davis Langdon employer’s agent and QS, Buro Happold structural engineer, Hoare Lea services engineer and Rawlinson Kelly Whittlestone healthcare strategist.