― Women’s and Children’s Health
Enhancing well-being for women and young patients
Contents
Introduction ― 4 Selected Projects ― 8
Front Cover:
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, Stanford Children’s Health, Palo Alto, California
Left: Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children’s Center, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
(School of Puffer Fish, painted fiberglass, ©Robert Israel, 2012 – Curator: Nancy Rosen, Nancy Rosen Incorporated.)
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Women’s and Children’s Health
A path to lifelong health
Design for women’s and pediatric healthcare delivery must be flexible, adaptive, and future-focused. From the most advanced quaternary care hospitals to community clinics for screening and assessment, patients require care that is convenient and continuous—touchpoints from birth to adulthood.
Places that inspire women, children, and families to live their best lives.
As designers, we’re committed to creating places that support medical discovery. Our work enables the scientific progress that makes it possible to cure illness at lower levels of intervention, and to treat previously untreatable conditions.
With rigor, research, and grace, we create healing environments that spur incredible feats of medicine and inspire powerful acts of kindness. Human-centered by design, our projects provide places where patients can get well—and stay well.
― Women’s and Children’s Health
Selected Projects
Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital and Pearl Tourville Women’s Pavilion
Charleston, South Carolina
Client: Medical University of South Carolina
Size: 625,000 square feet (58,064 square meters)
Completion Date: 2019
Awards:
Award of Merit, Healthcare Design, 2020
High Commendation: Interior Design and Arts
Category, European Healthcare Design, 2020
The new building will be a gateway to Charleston and the medical campus.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Landscaped roof gardens provide respite for patients and families, offering expansive views of the Lowcountry.
Façade with view terrace
7th level Family Dining Terrace → Lobby
Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital and Pearl Tourville Women’s Pavilion
Greater Accra Regional Hospital at Ridge
Accra, Republic of Ghana
Client: The Republic of Ghana
Size: 465,000 square feet (43,200 square meters)
Completion Date: 2017
Sustainability: LEED for Healthcare Silver ® Awards:
Highly Commended: Healthcare Design (Over 25,000 sqm)
Category , European Healthcare Design, 2019
Hospital Design of the Year, Africa Healthcare Summit, 2017
Future Health Project, Design + Health International Award, 2014
Honor Award for Unbuilt Design, AIA Florida, 2014
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A highly sustainable women’s and children’s hospital that reflects the aspirations of the rapidly developing African country.
The hospital’s use of concrete, wood, and steel—all traditional Ghanaian building materials—creates a sense of timelessness of place.
Tower Module
Breezeway Connector Circulation Flows (Tower)
Drop-Off
Plinth Module
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
The same energy and environmental performance as high-tech buildings, but with ageold strategies and lowtech solutions.
↑ Patient recovery unit ← Patients can be transported from one floor to the next by a covered outdoor walkable ramp.
→ Branded wayfinding
The Greater Accra Regional Hospital at Ridge
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
Palo Alto, California
Client: Stanford Children’s Health
Size: 521,000 square feet (48,402 square meters)
Completion Date: 2017
Sustainability: LEED Platinum ®
Partners: HGA (Executive Architect)
Awards:
National Healthcare Design Award – Built (More than $25 Million category), AIA Academy of Architecture for Health, 2018
The Dunlevie Garden contains educational and engaging sculptures that children can physically explore. Winding pathways snake throughout the garden and lead visitors to discovery points. The garden allows for both public gathering and quiet reflection.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Private patient rooms, familyfriendly amenities, abundant access to nature, and plenty of children’s learning opportunities.
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
Clockwise from Top Left:
A gracious communicating stair connects the lobby and public concourse; a reclaimed redwood clad elevator tower orients families on every floor; decorative ceilings delight children on stretchers in surgery; ambassador animal footprints trace pathways of discovery in the garden.
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
Clockwise from Top Left: Two overlooks on each nursing unit provide convenient, dedicated outdoor spaces for patients and staff; nursing unit corridors incorporate ecoregion theming and color to support easy wayfinding.
Virginia Mason Franciscan Birthing Center at Virginia Mason Medical Center
Seattle, Washington
Client: CHI Franciscan/Virginia Mason
Size: 17,121 square feet
Completion Date: 2020
― WHAT IT IS
Home to a state-ofthe-art Birthing Center that raises the bar on obstetrics and provides each family highly personalized care in a boutique space.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Employs NICLET rooms which allow critical-care infants to stay with mom in the postpartum room instead of recovering in a separate NICU.
Virginia Mason Franciscan Birthing Center
Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children’s Center
Baltimore, Maryland
Client: The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Size: 1,600,000 square feet (148,640 square meters), including Sheikh Zayed Tower
Completion Date: 2012
Awards:
Bronze Award of Honor for Interior Design, Society of American Registered Architects (SARA) NY, 2013
Excellence in Design Citation, Institutional Architecture, AIA Maryland, 2012
Design Award of Honor, Society of American Registered Architects (SARA), 2012
― WHAT IT IS
Not just a state-of-the-art medical facility, but also, a haven of healing.
Children’s tower lobby (Cow Jumping Over the 28 Phases of the Moon, painted fiberglass, steel and aluminum, © Robert Israel, 20012
– Curator: Nancy Rosen, Nancy Rosen Incorporated.)
→ Design for curtainwall and frit pattern on glass created by artist Spencer Finch.
Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children’s Center
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Over 300 works of kid-friendly art created by more than 70 artists make healing more fun.
Children’s Health Pediatric
Intensive Care Unit
Dallas, Texas
Client: Children’s Health Dallas
Size: 28,825 square feet (2,678 square meters)
Completion Date: 2018 Awards: Gold Award, Healthcare Design Remodel/Renovation Competition, 2019
Touches of whimsical art do double-duty, providing both wayfinding and entertainment.
― WHAT IT IS A pediatric ICU renovation, designed with family input, that supports patient recovery and nurtures caregiver well-being.
Advanced Pediatric Care Pavilion
Miami, Florida
Client: Nicklaus Children’s Hospital
Size: 215,000 square feet (19,974 square meters)
Completion Date: 2016
Sustainability: LEED Certified ®
Awards:
Best Healthcare Large Project, IIDA South Florida, 2018
Advanced Pediatric Care Pavilion
Art-driven wayfinding
The building’s western façade ushers in an abundance of natural light while helping mitigate the South Florida heat through varying degrees of translucence.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Design for family bedside visits ensures that children have a sense of comfort and social support while they are healing.
King Abdullah Specialist Children’s Hospital
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Client: National Guard Health Affairs
Size: 1,934,000 square feet (179,674 square meters)
Completion Date: 2014
Sustainability: LEED Gold ®
Awards:
b.o.b. (Best of the Best) Design Award - Healthcare Large, ( >35,000 SF), IIDA Georgia, 2016 Global Excellence Award, Healthcare, International Interior Design Association (IIDA), 2014
― WHAT IT IS
The first specialized children’s hospital in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia providing comprehensive pediatric care.
Clockwise from Top Right: Outpatient clinic waiting; Reception; Exterior
King Abdullah Specialist Children’s Hospital
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Carefully considered designs engage and delight young patients, evoking a sense of child-like wonder. ↑ Inpatient waiting area
Inpatient play area → Patient room
Bunny Mellon Healing Garden
Washington, D.C.
Client: Children’s National Medical Center
Size: 7,200 square feet (670 square meters)
Completion Date: 2016
Awards:
Healthcare Environment Awards–Landscape, Contract Magazine, 2017
Innovative Project of the Year–Responsible Design, Community Leader Awards, USGBC National Capital Region, 2017
Award of Merit, Best Projects 2017, ENR Mid Atlantic, 2017
― WHAT IT IS
A calming, restful rooftop garden that provides a break from the clinical environment to patients, families, and staff.
Kids receiving care at Children’s National have a place to enjoy fresh air, the outdoors, and inspiring views of the nation’s capital.
UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital
Los Angeles, California
Client: University of California, Los Angeles
Size: 101 ,165 square feet (9,400 square meters)
Completion Date: 2008
Partners:
Pei Partnership Architects (Design Architect)
RBB Architects (Consulting Architect)
The hospital provides the most critically ill children with sophisticated, compassionate care. ― WHAT IT IS A cheerful and reassuring hospital-within-a-hospital environment for sick and injured children and their families.
Nemours Children’s Hospital
Orlando, Florida
Client: Nemours Foundation
Size: 600,000 square feet (55,742 square meters)
Completion Date: 2012
Sustainability: LEED Gold ®
Partners: EYP / Stanley Beaman Sears (Architect of Record)
Awards:
Design Excellence Award, Boston Society of Architects,2014
Best of Year Honoree, Interior Design, 2013
Healthcare Design Category Winner, IIDA Georgia, 2013
Best of the Best Overall Winner, IIDA Georgia, 2013
User-Centered Design Award, Symposium Distinction Awards, Healthcare Facilities Symposium, 2013
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A medical home for children and families which provides consistent care for both clinic visits and inpatient stays.
The Paint Your Room concept lets children customize their own space. This choice of color translates to the exterior and creates a mosaic of patient personalities at night.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Patient-controlled technology can change the color of the lighting in the room at night and personalize the space for the child.
Nemours Children’s Hospital
Medical Center Labor and Delivery and NICU
Chicago, Illinois
Client: Rush University Medical Center
Size: 35,000 square feet (3,252 square meters)
Completion Date: 2013
Awards:
Design Excellence Award, Interior Architecture, AIA Chicago Chapter, 2012
Best of the Year Honoree, Interior Design, 2012
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WHAT IT IS
Eighth floor NICU and Labor, Delivery, and Recovery Unit focused on family-centered care.
LDR wing contains three obstetric operating rooms and 10 private labor/ delivery recovery suites outfitted with a sleeper sofa and recliner for family members. The NICU is comprised of 72 private rooms with spacious seating and in-room lighting controls for families to spend time with their newborn in a relaxed setting.
Carmen and John Thain Center for Prenatal Pediatrics
New York, New York
Client: New York Presbyterian Hospital / Columbia Medical Center
Size: 12,000 square feet (1,115 square meters)
Completion Date: 2010
Providing holistic, patientfocused care with peace of mind for expecting mothers this is the only facility of its kind in New York City.
― WHAT IT IS A center for multidisciplinary care for mothers and unborn babies with abnormalities, as well as neonatal and long-term pediatric care.
Carmen and John Thain Center for Prenatal Pediatrics
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
To promote tranquility and wellness, the environment is reminiscent of a Japanese spa with nature elements and an earth tone palette.
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