25th Annual Design Awards

The blurring of hospital and hospitality continued in the 25th annual Modern Healthcare Design Awards with some healthcare architects consulting with hotel and resort designers on how to best help patients feel at home.
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The design for Seattle's 112-bed Swedish Orthopedic Institute works. And it has the data to prove it.
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With its saturation of color and richness of textures, design award judge Henry Chao says the Bellevue Medical Center has “one of the most beautiful interiors” among the 69 entries in this year's contest.
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The 386-bed Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend, part of PeaceHealth, goes so far in pushing the hospital-hospitality envelope, architects on the design award jury were shocked that the hospital executives on the panel had a positive view of the project.
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Gig Harbor, Wash., is described as a place where “the forest meets the sea,” and ZGF Architects wanted to take every advantage it could with the surroundings when designing these facilities.
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In addition to designing a massive 2,000-bed, 2.4 million-square-foot facility, Irvine, Calif.-based HMC Architects was tasked with creating a “civic icon” to serve as an anchor for a brand-new community in the Shunde District of Foshan, China.
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The new three-story, $26.3 million addition to the Southcentral Foundation Primary Care Clinic in Anchorage, Alaska, is designed to foster patient-centered, integrated care, with room for teams to collaborate and support each other, says Richard Dallam, a partner with NBBJ architects.
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Set on a wooded, 12-acre site, the new $53 million Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Flower Mound, which opened in April, will drive further development on a 158-acre site called the River Walk at Central Park, which will include medical, office, residential, restaurant and retail uses.
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The blurring of hospital and hospitality continued in the 25th annual Modern Healthcare Design Awards with some healthcare architects consulting with hotel and resort designers on how to best help patients feel at home.
FULL STORY »