AIA selects four projects for national healthcare design awards

by Brianna Crandall — October 4, 2010—The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) has selected the recipients of the AIA National Healthcare Design Awards program, which showcases the best of healthcare building design and healthcare design-oriented research.

According to AIA, the projects exhibit conceptual strengths that solve aesthetic, civic, urban, and social concerns as well as the requisite functional and sustainability concerns of a hospital. The award winners for 2010 are:

Category A: Built, less than $25 million (construction cost)

  • Duke Integrative Medicine (DIM), Duke University, Durham, NC; Duda/Paine Architects, LLP
  • Advocate Lutheran General Hospital Center for Advanced Care, Park Ridge, IL; OWP/P | Cannon Design

Category B: Built, more than $25 million (construction cost)

  • Children’s Medical Center Legacy, Dallas; ZGF Architects LLP

Category C: Unbuilt

  • Seoul National University Hospital Medical Mall, Seoul, Korea; Gresham Smith & Partners