Health: Cancer Care

Design for exceptional personalized care

Introduction ― 4 Selected Projects ― 8

― Cancer Care

Human-centered design

The best cancer treatment environments support personalized disease management and cure through flexible design solutions that promote wellness and renewal. Our projects demonstrate how the physical environment can be a care partner—exceeding the expectations of patients, families and caregivers on their journey to health and wellbeing.

Responsive therapeutic environments for people.

Personalized Connected

A place for people. Every cancer patient’s journey is personal; no two patients or diagnoses are exactly alike; no loved one is standardized.

A place that fosters hope and connection with natural orders and cycles—a sense of community that supports both the dedicated people who work within its walls and those who come there to heal.

Collaborative

A place that supports advanced, highly specialized treatment protocols administered by a team of engaged, collaborative, multidisciplinary professionals focused on the whole person.

― Cancer Care

Selected Projects

Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth

Regional Cancer Center

Middletown, New Jersey

Client: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Size: 154,000 square feet (14, 307 square meters)

Completion Date: 2016

Sustainability: LEED Gold ®

Awards:

Healthcare Interior Design Award – Ambulatory Cancer Center category, IIDA, 2017

Best in Category, Cancer Care, Healthcare Design

Remodel-Renovation Competition, 2017

Best of Year Honoree – Healthcare Category, Interior

Design, 2017

Shortlisted – Healthcare Unbuilt Category, World Architecture News, 2012

― WHAT IT IS

The transformation of a former suburban office building into a memorable regional cancer center through an experiential design that recalls ‘a walk in the woods.’

― WHAT MAKES IT COOL

Biophilic design informs planning of clinical areas and infusion; views of nature, natural materials and color palettes extend the experience.

Clockwise from Top Right: Daylit imaging and imageguided procedure rooms transform the patient and staff experience.

Biophilic design informs planning of clinical areas and infusion; views of nature, natural materials and color palettes extend the experience.

Stepped 6-chair private infusion pods allow all patients panoramic views of nature and staff visibility of their faces throughout chemotherapy.

To enhance patient arrival and wayfinding and increase natural light and views, a three-story courtyard bisects the floorplate, following the arc of the sun. Upper-level glass-enclosed bridges connect patient areas and amplify the courtyard experience.

Dens, parlors and libraries alongside the center’s main corridors provide patients with micro-experiences—a concept that the client has taken to its broader MSK network of healthcare facilities.

Mayo Clinic Integrated Oncology Building

Jacksonville, Florida

Client: Mayo Clinic

Size: 255,000 square feet (23,690 square meters)

Completion Date: 2025

“This facility will give us the ability to offer our patients the full spectrum of cancer treatment options, including chemotherapy, immunotherapy, CAR-T cell therapy (chimeric antigen receptor therapy T-cell therapy), surgery, proton beam therapy, gamma knife radiosurgery and traditional radiotherapy.”

― DR. KENT THIELEN, CEO OF MAYO CLINIC IN FLORIDA

Wexner Medical Center, The James Outpatient Care

Columbus, Ohio

Client: The Ohio State University

Size: 385,000 square feet (35,768 square meters)

Completion Date: 2023

The new eight-story, 385,000-square-foot facility was brought to life in partnership with architecture and design firms Perkins&Will and DesignGroup and was built on the idea of bettering the lives of people with cancer—from diagnosis to treatment through survivorship.

Wexner Medical Center, The James Outpatient Care

― WHAT MAKES IT COOL

The project houses central Ohio’s first proton therapy treatment facility, in partnership with Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

The 12-bed Extended Recovery Unit is an extension to the Prep Post Suite for an 8 O.R. Surgical Suite. The suite is designed to allow 23-hour patients to stay overnight, thus enabling more complex ambulatory procedures for the facility.

UT Southwestern Radiation Oncology

Dallas, Texas

Client: UT Southwestern Medical Center

Size: 71,000 square feet (6,596 square meters)

Completion Date: 2017

Awards:

Outstanding Medical Real Estate Project, D CEO

Excellence In Healthcare Awards, 2017

Clockwise from Top Right: Patient and staff experience are improved in a clutter-free environment.

Technical corridor provides behind-the-scenes access to positioning equipment and supplies.

Control desk with view through vault to technical corridor.

― WHAT MAKES IT COOL

The first-of-itskind two-door vault design creates a more efficient and pleasant treatment environment for both patients and staff.

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A radiation oncology environment that brings together disease oriented teams to advance research and treatment.

The reimagined vault design created a less intimidating and more pleasant treatment corridor for both patients and staff.

Cone Health MedCenter Asheboro

Asheboro, North Carolina

Client: Cone Health

Size: 51,000 square feet (4,738 square meters)

Completion Date: 2024

Awards:

Healthcare Environment Award, The Center for Health Design, 2026

Winner: Ambulatory – Cancer Center, Healthcare Design Awards, IIDA, 2025

Highly Commended, Interior Design and Arts,European Healthcare Design, 2025

LCI Lean in Design Award, Lean Construction Institute, 2025

― WHAT IT IS

A serene healthcare facility nestled in nature, blending architecture with the surrounding forest.

→ Infusion where patients can enjoy the garden, pottery, and the vista of the forest beyond.

The main building façade is defined by a continuous “Porch” that extends across the front of the structure.

Delivered through an Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) approach, the project was completed on schedule and within budget — despite a compressed 24-month design and construction timeline.

― WHAT MAKES IT COOL

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immersive experience connecting patients, visitors and staff to gardens, local pottery and art, and the forest beyond

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Infusion porch featuring local pottery and a pollinator garden

Infusion sub-waiting and private patient corridor,

The lobby at Cone Health MedCenter has vistas to nature on all three sides, allowing natural light to engulf the space. Local art is displayed on several walls, reminding the patients that this building belongs to this community.

CARTI Cancer Center

Little Rock, Arkansas

Client: CARTI

Size: 176,000 square feet (16,350 square meters)

Completion Date: 2015

Awards:

People’s Choice Award, Built Project, AIA Georgia, 2017

Market Award - Large Healthcare, Shaw Contract, 2017

Design Excellence Award – Gold, Healthcare, Over 10,000 SF, ASID Georgia, 2016

― WHAT MAKES IT COOL

The infusion therapy center, located on the fourth floor, takes advantage of the dramatic natural landscape of heavily wooded hills and distant mountains.

UChicago Medicine Crown Point

Crown Point, Indiana

Client: University of Chicago Medicine and PMB

Size: 132,000 square feet (12,263 square meters)

Completion Date: 2024

Awards:

Winner: Ambulatory – Ambulatory Surgery Center, IIDA, 2024

Red Award – Healthcare, IIDA Illinois Chapter, 2024

People’s Choice, IIDA Illinois Chapter, 2024

This futureforward, free-standing two-story, facility is filling a gap in a region where accessibility to high-quality medical care was previously limited, offering a new way of delivering a variety of health services to the community.

UChicago Medicine Crown Point

The two-story patient pavilion connects the major programmatic functions including a micro-hospital, imaging, lab, ambulatory surgical center, infusion, radiation oncology and clinics.

Set within the warm neutral colors of the patient pavilion, colored entry portals provide intuitive wayfinding, and reflect the calming shades of green found in Indiana’s rolling hills, plains and native prairie grasses.

Texas Oncology Fort Worth

Fort Worth, Texas

Client: Cambridge Development

Size: 94,000 square feet (8,733 square meters)

Completion Date: 2018

A cancer center located within a tight urban site with demanding programmatic operational needs.

The design of the Cancer Center follows a simple parti with a four-story glass curtain wall accentuating the main entrance.

Locally honed Texas limestone adds warmth to the building façade’s modern aesthetic. Linear accelerators are clad in natural wood, creating a soft street edge that complements the stone. The vault roof is clad in a landscaped pattern of grass, groundcover, and two types of river rock, giving visual interest to the infusion area on the third floor.

Texas Oncology Fort Worth

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WHAT MAKES IT COOL

Patients have a choice between individual or community treatment environments, with additional flexibility to accommodate visiting family and friends.

A demonstration kitchen promotes healthy diets to help in the patients healing.

Infusion bays have unencumbered views of downtown Fort Worth.

Mangurian Building

Jacksonville, Florida

Client: Mayo Clinic

Size: 190,000 square feet (17,652 square meters)

Completion Date: 2018

Awards:

First Place – Ambulatory (Outpatient) Care Facilities, Healthcare Environment Awards, Contract Magazine in partnership with Center for Health Design, 2019

― WHAT MAKES IT COOL

A high-tech, hightouch, patient-centric atmosphere supports a consumer-focused experience

Puget Sound Cancer Center

Edmonds, Washington

Client: Swedish Cancer Institute

Size: 17,000 square feet (1,580 square meters)

Completion Date: 2012

Modular

prefabricated infusion chemotherapy clinic for cancer patients within an existing healthcare campus.

The modular prefabricated infusion clinic was designed and constructed in a fast track process.

Constructed in the field from 24 prefabricated modular building components, this facility achieves maximum construction efficiency and portability.

The Lennar Foundation Medical Center

Coral Gables, Florida

Client: UHealth Gables

Size: Cancer Program: 43,000 square feet (3,995 square meters) / Facility: 206,000 square feet (19,138 square meters)

Completion Date: 2016

Sustainability: LEED Silver ®

Awards:

Merit Award, Built Project, AIA Georgia, 2018

Silver Design Award, Corporate – Healthcare Over 10,000 SF, ASID Georgia, 2018

Best of Healthcare, Larger than 35,000 SF, Best of the Best, IIDA Georgia, 2018

Finalist, Project of the Year, ULI Southeast Florida/ Caribbean, 2018

― WHAT MAKES IT COOL

On-stage/off-stage planning allows for improved work flow for staff and areas of quiet respite for patients and family.

Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation

Hope Lodge

Houston, Texas

Client: American Cancer Society

Size: 64,000 square feet

Completion Date: November 2019

Awards:

Design Excellence Award – Acute Healthcare Medium, IIDA Texas Oklahoma Chapter, 2022; Landmark Award – Hospitality Category, Houston Business Journal, 2021; Honor Award, AIA Dallas, 2021; Critic Award, AIA Dallas, 2021

Hope Lodge Houston provides free lodging and amenities for cancer patients undergoing treatment in Houston.

The design concept seeks to develop a building as a sanctuary, providing refuge and a sense of rejuvenation and hope, helping to generate the energy and camaraderie necessary to promote the healing process.

― WHAT MAKES IT COOL

A large, vibrant garden in the center of the plan is visible from every piece of the building and helps to focus patients on the real purpose of the lodge: hope and healing.

All communal spaces surround the central healing garden, allowing for natural daylight to permeate the building and offer biophilic views.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Laboratory Medicine Building

New York, New York

Client: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Size: 91,000 square feet (8,454 square meters)

Completion Date: 2018

― WHAT IT IS

A consolidated regional clinical laboratory building for cancer care serves as a hub and template for all laboratory services.

A flexible bench layout, automated open lab environments, and attention to workplace and staff respite are a model for laboratory environments system wide.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Laboratory Medicine Building

― WHAT MAKES IT COOL

The full-height glass curtain wall employs a solarresponsive pattern that limits solar gain and glare, while evoking DNA mapping used in advanced cancer treatment.

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