Design Awards news and information

One judge praised the Lunder Building for fitting into a tight urban context. It houses emergency and radiation oncology departments and features multiple links to adjacent buildings.
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The 12-story Roberts Pavilion on the Cooper University Hospital campus features a healing garden outside and two-story-high bamboo plants in its atrium. It combines 300,000 square feet of new construction and 80,000 square feet of renovated space.
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With the Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects created an iconic presence near the Hudson River in Manhattan.
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The UC San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center was designed to complement existing structures on the University of California at San Diego Health System's Thornton Hospital campus in La Jolla while creating its own identity.
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Modern Healthcare is now accepting nominations for its annual Design Awards competition. The award, now in its 27th year, recognizes excellence in the design and planning of new and remodeled healthcare facilities.
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Modern Healthcare's annual Design Awards program recognizes excellence in the design and planning of new and remodeled healthcare facilities.
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Located in Orlando's Lake Nona medical city, 95-bed Nemours Children's Hospital will include amenities such as trails and outdoor therapy rooms. It also will feature specialty clinics, ambulatory-surgery services and a research center.
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Healthcare facility designers continue to further develop the concept of a “healing environment,” which includes the use of natural light, views of nature, strategic use of color and the elimination of noise, but the experts who judged the 88 entries in the 26th annual Modern Healthcare...
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At Phoenix Children's Thomas Campus, the patient tower—designed to resemble a desert flower—is “carefully crafted to respond to the Phoenix sun,” maximizing use of natural light and minimizing heat gain, according to the facility's architects.
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One judge described the center as having “a superior building aesthetic” with a “well-executed, handsome design envelope.” Others liked the relationships between the facility's departments and how exterior features related to outdoor elements.
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