Designs that Help Heal Receive Healthcare Design Awards

by Marcy Marro | 30 July 2018 12:00 am

The American Institute of Architects[1] (AIA) Academy of Architecture for Health[2] (AAH) is recognizing seven projects with its Healthcare Design Awards for cutting-edge designs that help solve aesthetic, civic, urban and social problems while also being functional and sustainable.

Details for each of the awarded projects are available online.[3]

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[5]AIA/AAH bestows the awards annually for leading healthcare building design, healthcare planning and healthcare design-oriented research. The seven projects were honored at the AIA AAH/ACHA Summer Leadership Summit[6] in Chicago on Saturday, July 28. Projects were awarded by the seven-member jury in the following categories.

“Category A Built” represents a project with a construction cost that was less than $25 million:

• Story County Medical Center Outpatient Unit Expansion, Nevada, Iowa | INVISION Architecture[7];
• Maggie’s Centre Barts, London, United Kingdom | Steven Holl Architects[8]; Associate Architect: jmarchitects[9].

“Category B Built” represents a project with a construction cost that was more than $25 million:

• Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, Palo Alto, California | Perkins+Will[10]and HGA Architects and Planners[11];
• Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth, Monmouth, New Jersey | Perkins+Will[10];
• Cedars Sinai Advanced Health Sciences Pavilion, Los Angeles | HOK[12].

“Category C Renovations/Remodels” represents a project primarily built within an existing hospital or clinical space or the adaptive reuse of an existing building to a healthcare use:

• Cedars-Sinai, Playa Vista Physician Office & Urgent Care, Playa Vista, California | ZGF Architects LLP[13].

“Category D Unbuilt” represents a project commissioned for compensation by a client with the authority and intention to build:

• Eastside Health Clinic, Portland, Oregon | Ankrom Moisan Architects[14].

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