Project Title: Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Shapiro Cardiovascular Center
Project Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Construction Type: New Construction
Size: 1,278,686 square feet
Cost: $210,000,000
About the Project:
Within its circulation system, a series of strategically positioned public spaces with engaging views, facilitate wayfinding throughout the Center, while offering opportunities for repose and relaxation. In addition, to avoid the typically dispiriting institutional feeling, double-height spaces with interconnecting stairways create waiting rooms with a gracious living room setting. Patient rooms around the building’s perimeter feature large windows that provide abundant soothing natural light. All patient rooms are private and include a family zone; moreover by introducing transparency in selected interior partitions, natural light is filtered from patient rooms into hallways and nurses stations, greatly enhancing the interior environment.
Fully equipped with the latest technology, including eight miles of fiber-optic cable and an electronic tracking system to monitor the flow of patients and equipment, the Center includes a hybrid operating room capable of accommodating both angioplasties and bypass surgeries and spaces for future technological advancements such as robotic surgery and real-time body scans. As a center dedicated to cardiovascular care, the Shapiro Center greatly improves efficiency in several ways. Housing all heart patients under one roof ensures more accurate scheduling of procedures and discharges, reducing average length of stay. Locating physicians specializing in allied but different fields, such as angioplasties and bypasses, in close proximity improves collaboration and communication between sub-specialists as well as providing patients with one-stop medical care.
About the Architect:
Change in the marketplace is dramatically altering the ways in which healthcare services are delivered. In a competitive environment, providers must think strategically, operate efficiently and court an increasingly selective consumer. Cannon Design is nationally renowned for developing facilities that position our clients to confront the challenges and capitalize upon the opportunities of this new era with confidence.
Design for healthcare has been a cornerstone of Cannon Design’s practice since our founding sixty years ago. We have achieved international recognition as a specialist in this field by successfully addressing the planning issues and developing the design solutions that best position our clients to deliver superior healthcare service in both urban and community settings.
Our activities range from master planning and programming—to the assessment, renovation and expansion of existing facilities—to the development of new specialty institutions and clinics serving specific populations.
Cannon Design is an ideas based practice, ranked among the leading international firms in planning and design for healthcare, science & technology, education, sports & recreation and government clients. At present, the firm employs a staff of 800, delivering services in 17 offices throughout North America, as well as abroad in Shanghai, China, and Mumbai, India.
