Luckily, we’ve managed to thus far evade more than a handful of hours in a hospital at any one time… that being said, even a few hours inside one of our nation’s gloomy and oppressing super-bug traps is more than enough to make anyone feel really quite ill, obviously this being far from the desired effect of a healthcare premises. Enter Circle, Europe’s largest partnership of healthcare professionals, and their stimulating new proposition of “transforming the patient experience in our new generation of compact hospitals”…. the first of which is CircleBath, a stunning, modern and sophisticated hospital, designed by no less than the country’s most esteemed architects, Foster + Partners. With pedigree in the shape of London’s iconic Swiss Re building at 30 St Mary Axe – aka “The Gherkin” – City Hall and the transformation of Berlin’s ‘Reichstag’ to name but a few, Lord Foster’s pioneering firm were the instant choice when Circle sought a radical departure from orthodox hospital planning… and with research documenting that a well-designed hospital environment can dramatically reduce recovery times and contribute to better outcomes for it’s patients, this could be their most profound work to date.