The third volume of a series on the renovation of the Swiss public hospital KSSG–OKS.

Since 2011, the Swiss city of St. Gallen’s public hospital KSSG–OKS has been undergoing a comprehensive rebuilding and extension program. Developed by Zurich-based firm Fawad Kazi Architekt in collaboration with the KSSG–OKS planning consortium, the vast undertaking will completely transform the site into a large, coherent building complex by 2029.

This third volume of the eventually five-part monograph on this major and hugely demanding urban development project is dedicated to Haus 07A, the largest of the new buildings, which gives the entire complex a new urban face. A high-rise that mainly hosts the hospital’s wards is founded on a three-story elongated base with a spacious public roof terrace and includes the main entrance to the entire hospital complex.

Marko Sauer is an architect and codirector of the Swiss city of Wil SG’s building construction department. He also works as a freelance author and publicist. Christoph Wieser is an architect, publicist, researcher, and lecturer in the School of Architecture, Construction and Geomatics at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland in Muttenz.