Copenhagen’s city-run Center for Health takes a holistic approach to treating lifestyle-related diseases, like obesity and type 2 diabetes. Designed by Danish firm Dorte Mandrup, the curved three-story building is clad in aluminum, but the spaces inside—sports facilities, classrooms, and a learning kitchen—are lined with Swedish timber. The atrium at the building’s core, called the Heart Room and serving as the literal and metaphorical circulatory center, creates a calming and inviting space bucking the expectation that medical institutions will be clinically impersonal. Says firm founder Dorte Mandrup, “It’s all about trying to make this a really friendly, attractive place where people want to go.”