A Singaporean hospital is the inaugural winner of the Stephen S. Kellert Award for Biophilic Design. It’s the latest effort by the International Living Future Institute and CEO Amanda Sturgeon to place biophilia front and center in the green architecture movement.

Khoo Teck Puat [hospital] surpasses traditional hospitals and opens the door towards a new kind of building type for the healthcare industry, which considers how the built and natural environment can become part of the healing process,” Sturgeon said as the award was given during Greenbuild 2017 in Boston.

Early this year, ILFI launched its Biophilic Design Initiative, which “aims to achieve the goal of broad adoption of Biophilic Design among the design community, building owners and cities.” This summer, IFLI’s imprint, Ecotone Publishing, released Sturgeon’s book, Creating Biophilic Buildings. And at the Kellert Award event, ILFI rolled out an interactive map that allows project teams to upload biophilic design features on buildings around the world.

Read the full article by Ken Edelstein about green architecture from The Kededa Fund