The first Center of Excellence of its nature in central Illinois, the Carle Spine Institute consolidated Carle Clinic Association's nonsurgical spine and neck treatment services in a freestanding building on the Carle Foundation Hospital campus. Patients can now...
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Orthopaedic & Rheumatology Associates [Bettendorf, IA]
Project category: New construction (completed February 2007) Chief administrator: Bonnie Swanson, Administrative Director, (563) 322-0971 Firm: Gere Dismer Architects, LLC, (309) 786-9910 Design team: Perry W. Gere, AIA, Lead Architect (Gere Dismer Architects, LLC);...
Aultman Hospital [Canton, OH]
Architectural and interior design services were provided for a 338,000-sq.-ft. expansion project, Aultman 2010, at Aultman Hospital. The addition is connected to the existing hospital via a four-story atrium lobby. The new facility houses several relocated...
Massachusetts General Hospital—Backfill Renovation Projects [Boston, MA]
Founded in 1811, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is the third oldest general hospital in the United States and the oldest and largest in New England. For more than six years, the architect has been working at MGH on renovations designed to meet increasing...
Garden Spot Village Retirement Community [New Holland, PA]
Garden Spot Village opened in New Holland, Pennsylvania, in 1996. However, the lack of privacy, lack of choice, clinical nature of the environment, and lifelessness residents were experiencing in an institutional setting convinced management to convert their...
Ingalls Health System Family Care Center [Flossmoor, IL]
Increased public visibility and long-term growth were the objectives for Ingalls Health System's new 80,000-sq.-ft., two-story Family Care Center in Flossmoor, Illinois. The building, parking, landscaping, and pond are integrated into the rolling topography of the...
Pinehurst Surgical [Pinehurst, NC]
Pinehurst Surgical, one of the largest multispecialty surgical group practices in the nation, celebrated its 60th anniversary with the opening of this replacement medical office building. An expanded service offering, combined with the refined charm of the...
Southeast Regional Treatment Center [Madison, IN]
The 150-bed Southeast Regional Treatment Center on the campus of the Madison Psychiatric Hospital is a leading point-of-care and outreach for inpatients with mental illnesses and developmental disabilities. Serving 18 counties in southeast Indiana, the project...
Edge-City Hospitals: New Communities, New Facilities
The cities of Katy and Sugar Land, Texas, are near-classic examples of what Joel Garreau termed “edge cities” in his 1991 book Edge City: Life on the New Frontier. They are among the new, self-contained suburbs of mixed-use commercial and residential properties...
Wayfinding at Kohler Pavilion: From City to Corridor
“Wayfinding” means successfully negotiating a path, often within the confines of a building. A farther-reaching view, however, expands the term to encompass moving from building to building, campus to campus, or even city to campus. At the Peter O. Kohler Pavilion,...
Center for the Intrepid—National Armed Forces Physical Rehabilitation Center [Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, TX]
Project category: New construction (completed January 2007) Chief administrator: Charles Scoville, Director, Amputee Program, (202) 782-5848 Firm: SmithGroup, (202) 974-0815 Design team: Philip Tobey, FAIA, FACHA, Principal-in-Charge; William Kline, AIA, CAA, LEED AP,...
SSM DePaul Health Center [Bridgeton, MO]
This project consists of a two-story atrium space and a new adjacent four-level, 80,000-sq.-ft. medical office building (MOB). The MOB lobby features a consolidation of the entry points for multiple outpatient services and connects the new MOB to two existing medical...











