Project category: New construction (completed June 2004) Chief administrator: John Mendelsohn, President and CEO, (713) 563-4503 Firms: FKP Architects, (713) 621-2100; O'Neill Hill and Associates, LLC (713) 524-5555 Design team: Richard M. Harris, AIA, Project Manager...
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Provena Mercy Medical Center AURORA, IL
Provena Mercy Medical Center has just completed a 16,000-sq.-ft. renovation/relocation project for its ICU, which was previously located on the fifth floor of the hospital, where patient flow from the ORs was a major concern. The new ICU is located on the first floor...
Holy Cross Hospital Expansion and Modernization SILVER SPRING, MD
This project, the largest expansion of the Holy Cross Hospital in its 40-year history, involved the addition of 210,000 square feet of new space and the renovation of 155,000 square feet of existing space. The result is a complete transformation that has doubled the...
Mat-Su Regional Medical Center PALMER, AK
Project category: New construction (completed January 2006) Chief administrator: Norman Stephens, CEO, (907) 861-6000 Firm: Ascension Group Architects, (817) 226-1917 Design team: Rod Booze, AIA, NCARB, ACHA, Principal/Architect (Ascension Group Architects); Jay Hyde,...
Trinitas Comprehensive Cancer Center ELIZABETH, NJ
In early 2000, Elizabeth General Hospital merged with St. Elizabeth Hospital to form Trinitas Hospital. Previously, cancer care was split between the two campuses. Housing Radiation and Medical Oncology programs, the new 49,000-sq.-ft. Cancer Center was designed as a...
Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institute – Memorial City HOUSTON, TX
As part of an overall campus expansion and update, a new nine-story patient care tower was designed to integrate with the existing one-story, 1970s vintage hospital and a 1980s four-story addition. The Heart and Vascular Institute was planned to occupy 90,000 square...
The importance of looking around
One of my favorite characters in all of literature is Howard Roark, the über-architect protagonist of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. As many, if not most, of our readers know, Roark is beholden to no one for inspiration, guidance, or approval in creating his designs. He...
Anadolu Medical Center GEBZE, TURKEY
Affiliated with Johns Hopkins Medicine, Anadolu Medical Center was master planned to include a six-level medical center with a hospital, rehabilitation center, medical office building, medical research institute, nursing college, hotel, nurses' residence, staff...
growth amid solitude
Overlooking the busy North Shore of Lake Superior, the Lakewalk Surgery Center is a vision of perfect solitude. Nestled directly on the lake's scenic lakewalk in Duluth, Minnesota, the recently renovated medical arts facility offers patients and physicians a...
Fairview Hospital CLEVELAND, OH
Project category: New construction & Remodel/Renovation (completed January 2006) Chief administrator: Paul Slebodnik, Vice-President of Operations, (216) 476-4878 Firm: Hasenstab Architects, Inc., (330) 434-4464 Design team: Mark A. Ohlinger, AIA,...
Clarian North Medical Center CARMEL, IN
Project category: New construction (completed December 2005) Chief administrator: Jonathan Goble, President and CEO, (317) 962-2525 Firm: HKS, Inc., (214) 969-5599 Design team: Craig Beale, FAIA, FACHA, RIBA, CHE, CHC, Principal-in-Charge; Norman Morgan, AIA, Design...
Evidence-based design: The new AIA guidelines on noise and privacy
Noise all night, couldn't sleep”; “Roommate drove me crazy”; “There's no privacy”—all are familiar complaints from hospital patients who can't wait to go home for some peace and quiet. Confirming the importance of these complaints, medical professionals acknowledge...











