The 21,000-square-foot, 37-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Bristol Myers Squibb Children's Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital is part of a three-floor vertical expansion project. A design goal was to create a lighthearted environment with design...
Maggie's Edinburgh was the first Maggie's Centre built. Designed by Richard Murphy in 1995, it underwent a much-needed expansion in 1999 and today serves as the administrative hub for all of the Maggie's Centres. One of the main challenges, says Murphy, was trying to...
As the second generation of the ER7 model crafted for the LifeBridge Health system, Northwest Hospital's new 27,000-square-foot emergency department continues this cutting-edge concept. With 38 exam rooms, this department maintains the ER7 features by efficiently...
The main waiting room at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's Pediatric Day Hospital is subdivided by “rolling sails,” custom stainless steel and stretched fabric creations designed to allow the users to reconfigure the seating areas into smaller pods for privacy...
Quotes from Frank Gehry “Someone who is suffering from cancer does not want to come to a great architectural, polemical statement; they would be put off by it…they have better things to do than be part of [the architect's] ego.” “I hope the architecture won't override...
Project category: Project in progress (December 2009) Chief administrator: John Friel, CEO and Administrator, (209) 848-4102 Firm: Moon Mayoras Architects, Inc., (619) 235-9780 Design team: Project Architects, Moon Mayoras Architects, Inc.; Structural Engineering,...
Lehigh Valley Hospital (LVH) and Health Network adopted the international symbol for hospital—the letter H—to convey health, healing, and hope to the Muhlenberg community. It is this architectural iconography that anchors the LVH brand name to its market by conveying...
Project category: New construction (completed December 2002) Chief administrator: Al Blackwelder, Chief Executive Officer, (404) 686-2450 Firms: HKS, Inc., (214) 969-5599; Pickard Chilton, (203) 786-8600 Design team: Dan Noble, FAIA, FACHA, Designer (HKS, Inc.); Jon...
The design team is providing architecture, engineering, interior design, and planning services for Cooper University Hospital's $117 million capital development project. The strategic phasing will transform the existing urban campus, located in Camden, New Jersey, to...
This $68 million, six-story tower project includes a heart center, intensive care unit, a medical/surgical bed unit, and a new main entrance. The ground level of the new tower houses the new Heart Center program with its own separate entrance that is immediately...
Project category: New construction & Remodel/Renovation (completed December 2004) Chief administrator: James Killian, Vice-President, (847) 535-6102 Firm: Plunkett Raysich Architects, LLP, (414) 359-3060 Design team: Michael Scherbel, AIA, Partner; Daniel Becker,...
Project category: New construction (completed November 2002) Chief administrator: Tom Rockers, Chief Executive Officer, (314) 525-1846 Firm: The Lawrence Group Architects, (314) 231-5700 Design team: I. Earl Swisher, Principal and Designer; Joel Alves, Project...
