September 9, 2015—The International Interior Design Association (IIDA), which boasts 15,000+ members across 58 countries, announced this week the winners of its 2015 Healthcare Interior Design Competition. The competition honors and celebrates outstanding originality and excellence in the design and furnishing of healthcare interior spaces.
EwingCole of Philadelphia, PA, won Best of Competition in the Outpatient Clinics category for the Memorial Sloan Kettering Ambulatory Cancer Center, West Harrison, NY.
This year, a jury of distinguished design professionals awarded Best of Competition honors to EwingCole in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for the firm’s project, Memorial Sloan Kettering Ambulatory Cancer Center. The EwingCole project was also recognized as winner in the Ambulatory Care Centers – Outpatient Clinics category.
About this year’s entries, IIDA Executive Vice President and CEO Cheryl Durst, Hon. FIIDA, LEED AP, commented:
The healthcare interior design industry is booming, and this year’s winning submissions showcased the very best in design, as well as a commitment to patient care and comfortability. Exceptional design can positively impact a patient’s well-being and overall experience. It is evident that each of these entries were designed to create a positive, healing environment with patient and caregiver needs at the forefront.
The judges were particularly impressed not only by the serene and calming feeling of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Ambulatory Cancer Center, but also because the facility is located within a repurposed building, which in itself brings a myriad of design challenges.
“Outstanding. This space feels exquisite and calming. It’s hard to believe this is a repurposed building,” said Lisa Herriott, IIDA, LEED AP, ID+C, Interior Designer, Project Manager, UW Medicine/Harborview Medical Center, about the project. “The design team truly took their task to heart when creating a cancer treatment center that takes note beyond the treatment itself and begins to care for the patients’ and loved ones’ entire well-being.”
Category winners of the 2015 Healthcare Interior Design Competition are as follows.
AMBULATORY CARE CENTERS
NBBJ, Seattle, WA, and Blitch Knevel, New Orleans, LA, won in the Community/Academic/Teaching Hospitals category for the University Medical Center – New Orleans (UMC), New Orleans, LA.
Outpatient Clinics
Best of Competition: Memorial Sloan Kettering Ambulatory Cancer Center, West Harrison, NY; EwingCole, Philadelphia, PA
Upstate Cancer Center, Syracuse, NY; EwingCole, Philadelphia, PA
Medical Practice Suites
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Pediatrics and OB-GYN Suite, Washington, DC; VOA Associates, Washington, DC
Medical Office Building Public Spaces
Palo Alto Medical Foundation, San Carlos Center, San Carlos, CA; NBBJ, Seattle, WA
HOSPITALS
Community/Academic/Teaching Hospitals
University Medical Center – New Orleans (UMC), New Orleans, LA; NBBJ, Seattle, WA / Blitch Knevel, New Orleans, LA
Women’s
Chongqing Angel Women’s & Children’s Hospital, Chongqing, China; Robarts Spaces Ltd., Beijing, China
SENIOR LIVING & RESIDENTIAL HEALTH, CARE, AND SUPPORT FACILITIES
Nursing Homes
Alden Estates of Evanston, Evanston, IL; Alden Design Group, Inc., Chicago, IL
Community-based Service Facilities
Town Hall Apartments, Chicago, IL; Gensler, Chicago, IL
Winning projects will be published in a fall issue of Healthcare Design magazine. Visit the 2015 Healthcare Interior Design Competition page of the IIDA Web site for images of this year’s winning projects.
