Faculty Hospital Brno – Panorama

From the flat roof of the high-rise Building L in Bohunice, there are wide-ranging views west towards the Vysočina region and east as far as Velká Javořina in the White Carpathians.

The Bohunice hospital complex was planned in 1969 due to insufficient capacity in Brno’s existing hospitals. Architect Miroslav Spurný, a graduate of Brno’s Faculty of Architecture, led the project after studying hospital designs abroad and working on healthcare facilities in Boskovice, Znojmo, and Valašské Meziříčí. The project, managed by Stavoprojekt, took twenty years to complete due to high costs. Following the gynecology-obstetrics pavilion and two nurses’ dormitories, the 18-storey main building opened in 1989, providing over a thousand beds, specialised departments, operating theatres, and laboratories. It is connected to lower technical and administrative wings and the gynecology clinic.

The building is a late modernist structure in the brutalist style, a major medical centre and a prominent feature of the Bohunice skyline. Building L was constructed using a special method: floors were assembled on the ground and lifted into place with a hydraulic system. The ward sections feature transparent parapets and brown-tinted sunshades supported by steel half-columns. Two staircases complement the building—east in bare concrete and west clad in black tiles—primarily serving the clinical wards. Adjacent sections are lower, with façades oriented north and south.

On the site originally planned for an internal clinic and polyclinic, the Diagnostic-Therapeutic Centre was built in 2006, designed by Atelier AS, with a heliport on the roof.