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The Lviv hospital is the largest hospital in Ukraine and has been treating war casualties since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, necessitating an urgent scaling-up of capacity for patients. At the Lviv Urban Forum in late June this year attended by the city’s mayor and deputy mayor, Shigeru Ban, the 2014 winner of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize, unveiled his proposal for the new hospital extension based on cross laminated timber (CLT) architecture.

Shigeru Ban's Lviv Hospital Expansion: Discover the architect's latest initiative to increase medical care capacity in Ukraine's largest hospital.

Shigeru Ban Architects and AMBK have designed a cross-laminated timber expansion for Ukraine's largest hospital, which is located in Lviv.

Internationally renowned Japanese architect Shigeru Ban visited Yale on April 24 to deliver a lecture on “Balancing Architectural Works and Social Contributions” at the joint invitation of the Yale School of Architecture, the Yale MacMillan Center Program on Refugees, Forced Displacement, and Humanitarian Responses, and the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale.  

Architect Shigeru Ban explains why he is tired of seeing architects use mass timber and how he wants to design a building that "changes its clothes".