PAYETTE is pleased to announce that three of our recent healthcare projects have received BSA Healthcare Design Awards: the Boston Children’s Hospital James Mandell Building; the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Center for Surgical Innovation; and the Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital. The BSA Healthcare Facilities Design Awards jury select recipients on design excellence alone. The BSA will announce the tier of the awards at the annual gala in January 2015.
Boston Children’s Hospital, James Mandell Building
The addition to Boston Children’s Hospital, notable for its slender silhouette along Binney Street, is a ten-story urban infill building that contains much needed expansion space for the ED, Imaging, Same Day Surgery, Neurology, Pharmacy and four floors of new inpatient beds in alignment with the existing hospital. While perceived from the streetscape as a fairly simple and elegant form, this addition is anything but simple. The building is actually a very complex three dimensional form that fits into a dense urban block like a piece in a jigsaw puzzle.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Center for Surgical Innovation
The new Center for Surgical Innovation coalesces state-of-the-art imaging and surgery to create the nation’s first surgical facility dedicated to translational research, housing an overhead movable MRI and CT designed for use by both patient and animal subjects in shared operating rooms. The hybrid inter-operative suite expands research and clinical space as a joint venture between the Medical Center and the School of Medicine, combining their expertise to test new approaches to surgical procedures, including real-time, image-guided surgery.
Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Children’s Hospital
The Children’s Hospital uses a rich palette of shapes, colors and materials to communicate the building’s unique identity as a place for children and families. Views to courtyards and gardens serve to make exterior spaces year-round extensions of the interior environment. This furthers an institutional vision to create a warm and open caregiving environment with the best patient experience at its center. The spatial strategy is shaped by the way a patient or a family will move through the spaces.
