by Brianna Crandall — August 25, 2014—The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) has selected the recipients of the AIA National Healthcare Design Awards program for 2014. The program showcases the best of healthcare building design and healthcare design-oriented research. Projects exhibit conceptual strengths that solve aesthetic, civic, urban, and social concerns as well as the requisite functional and sustainability concerns of a hospital, says AIA.
2014 recipients, selected in four different categories, are listed below:
Category A (Built, less than $25 million in construction cost)
- Legacy ER — Allen (a hybrid program offering urgent and 24/7 state-licensed emergency care services within a freestanding building); Allen, Texas; designed by 5G Studio Collaborative
- Lightwell: Greater Boston Orthodontics (a 100-year-old storefront and warehouse gutted and renovated to create an open-plan orthodontic clinic); Waltham, Massachusetts; designed by Merge Architects
Category B (Built, more than $25 million in construction cost)
- Lancaster General Health Ann B. Barshinger Cancer Institute (a visually open environment focused on regeneration and reconnection to living systems, with a radial form around a central courtyard healing garden); Lancaster, Pennsylvania; designed by Ballinger
- Mount Sinai Hess Center for Science and Medicine (a striking, integrated environment in an urban context offering state-of-the-art technology and fostering multi-disciplinary interaction through a network of formal and informal settings); New York City, New York; designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
- Rush University Medical Center New Hospital Tower (a new 840,000-square-foot state-of-the-art hospital building containing one of the country’s few bioterrorism preparedness facilities; the tower is designed to handle large-scale health emergencies, and is one of the largest hospitals in the world to be certified LEED Gold); Chicago, Illinois; designed by Perkins+Will
Category C (Unbuilt, must be commissioned for compensation by a client with the authority and intention to build)
- Children’s Hospital of Richmond Pavilion (CHoRP) at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU); Richmond, Virginia (gateway to medical campus; consolidates existing pediatric clinics into a compact vertical urban pavilion dedicated to providing comprehensive healthcare for children and adolescents); designed by HKS, Inc.
Category D (Innovations in Planning and Design Research, Built and Unbuilt)
- Cincinnati Children’s Family Pet Center (a 250 sq. ft. pavilion and lawn areas that accommodate patients whether on foot, in a wheelchair or on a stretcher, that expands the hospital’s pet therapy program by reuniting children with their own pets); Cincinnati, Ohio; designed by GBBN Architects
- GHESKIO Cholera Treatment Center (CTC) (first permanent facility in Port-au-Prince; provides for aggressive cholera treatment along with a dignified patient experience; tackles unique site conditions, including the lack of reliable piped water and lack of sewer system connection, with off-the-grid services); Port-au-Prince, Haiti; MASS Design Group
