A minimal design by The UP Studio (Long Island City, N.Y.) creates a unique identity for Mudgil Practices, a new joint dermatology and dentistry practice located in Hicksville, N.Y. Welcoming patients since spring 2016, the office includes a dermatology zone, a dentistry zone, mini- and full-sized testing laboratories, shared and private offices for each practice, and a shared waiting area for patients.
The new Seeds of Innocence fertility clinic in New Delhi, India (part of the Yashoda Group of Hospitals), was designed by Studio An-V-Thot Architects Pvt. Ltd. (New Delhi) and completed in March 2016. The building’s striking exterior features Marsala wine-colored lacquered panels that reflect the sky; a backlit, perforated box in the center of the front wall is clad with sheet metal and demarcates the critical zones within from the other areas of the clinic. The mezzanine floor visually divides the building into two, separating the upper floors from the ground floor.
Ravenswood Family Health Center’s (RFHC) new John and Susan Sobrato Campus in East Palo Alto, Calif., offers a full spectrum of health, social, and wellness resources. After operating in modular buildings since 2001, the $39 million facility provides all residents of the community (regardless of their ability to pay) with a permanent, modern health center.
The University of Arizona Cancer Center (UACC) at Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center (Phoenix), winner of an Award of Merit in the 2016 Healthcare Design Showcase, opened in June 2015—but it almost didn’t happen at all. The architect, ZGF Architects LLP (Los Angeles), explained in its submission that as the project neared design completion, a falling economy put stress on the project funding plan.
With fritted-glass exterior walls that appear to spiral gently inward toward the accelerators anchoring its core, Kaiser Permanente’s Kraemer Radiation Oncology Center (Anaheim, Calif.) makes it clear from the first look that its approach to cancer care aims to be different.
Located on the new Glen Yards Campus of the McGill University Hospital Centre, the new Shriners Hospital for Children in Montreal, Quebec, is a 180,000-square-foot orthopaedic pediatric facility. It houses rehabilitation and ambulatory care services, four operating rooms, 18 private patient rooms, four critical care beds, a conference center and surgical simulation laboratory, a small museum, and two floors dedicated to research and clinical laboratories.
Since 2009, Southern Jersey Family Medical Center (SJFMC) has occupied 6,000 square feet within an existing two-story building along High Street in Burlington, N.J. In 2013, SJFMC had the opportunity to purchase the entire building of approximately 20,000 square feet; it asked its original architect and interior design firm, MPM Studio LLC, to develop the expansion.
A busy travel schedule over the past month allowed me the opportunity to sit down with multiple groups of architects, designers, and providers in person. I love these conversations, because for whatever reason, the participants don’t seem to hold back (professional competitiveness be damned). And I always walk away with new insights, which sometimes call into question the concept of “trends.”
Founded in the 1970s, Downtown Women OB/GYN (DTW) was one of the first practices in Manhattan specifically committed to providing healthcare for women, by women. In 1987 DTW moved from a small office on lower Fifth Avenue to a third-floor, 2,500-square-foot loft space in a 19th century factory building in SoHo, a neighborhood that had yet to become the trendy art and shopping district it is today.
Built into a timber loft in Chicago’s River North neighborhood, Medical Dermatology Associates is a 5,500-square-foot medical clinic for a newly formed medical practice. The partners wanted to dramatically improve patient experience, and the designers from Woodhouse Tinucci Architects (Chicago) tried to do so by exploring a series of material and circulation layers within the design. Spaces are layered sequentially from public to private, creating separate and efficient circulation loops for patients and doctors.
The new Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin welcomes its first class in July 2016. In 2017, the medical school will open a new outpatient facility within Austin’s burgeoning medical district: the Health Transformation Building, a key part of Dell Medical School’s mission to rethink how people get and stay healthy.
