Skanska USA announces the completion of its expansion and renovation of the University of Virginia (UVA) Medical Center located in Charlottesville, Va. The project, which began construction in June 2015, provides much-needed additional capacity to the facility’s Emergency Department as part of the completion of a 430,000-square foot, 14-story expansion and 90,000 square feet of renovation work.
“The completion of this project provides the UVA Medical Center with additional capacity and upgraded facilities to address the surrounding community’s growing demand for healthcare,” said Greg Peele, executive vice president/general manager for Skanska USA Building in Virginia/North Carolina. “The new state-of-the-art facility with expanded care in the Emergency Department, as well as dedicated intervention areas, better meets the needs of both patients and staff.”
The four-story Saltzer Health medical office building in Meridian, Idaho provides an array of specialty clinics, five-room outpatient surgery center, physical therapy, gastroenterology, endoscopy, urgent care, family medicine, and five-modality medical imaging center in an easily accessible, welcoming medical campus. The overall Saltzer Health design aesthetic was developed to support a different way of delivering health care services. From the ease of access and all-in-one campus to the efficient space layout and refreshing interior design, the ethos of care is wholly patient centered. The Saltzer Health campus will help fill the need for high-quality, state-of-the-art health care in the fast-growing areas of Meridian and Nampa, while their new urgent care clinics have opened in locations across the Treasure Valley.
Situated in the heart of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences is a pioneering research facility for the scientific exploration of the brain. It has been carefully sited amid the natural rugged setting of the campus. Once the new tram link to the city center is opened, the building will act as a gateway to the university its dynamic social spaces and laboratory facilities are designed to attract exceptional scientists, as well as to foster an interest in the center’s research activities within the wider community.
Spencer de Grey, Head of Design, Foster + Partners, said: “Understanding the enigma of the brain is the most challenging endeavor of the 21st century and research in this area is vital to the quality of life for millions of people. This is one of the most innovative projects of its kind at an Israeli university, with several laboratory complexes that are highly flexible to anticipate and accommodate future change, arranged around an open central courtyard that is at the heart of the scheme.”
Vietnamese Oriental Medicine has developed throughout the country’s history since ancient times, combining the basic theories of traditional Oriental Medicine, the experience in using tropical herbal medicine and healing from the ancient Vietnamese community. From the time of Hai Thuong Lan Ong and Zen master Tue Tinh who knew how to use herbal medicine in healing, an oriental medicine imbued with Vietnamese identity was created.
This new healthcare centre is located in a distinctive landscape. Along with Château de la Corbière and its church it forms a new ensemble integrated within an agricultural estate overlooking Lake Neuchâtel. With its low-level volumes it respects the existing buildings and topography, opening out generously towards the lake and the Jura Mountains. The new building connects with the existing medical centre, combining with it to form a single articulated whole that engages in a dialogue with its environment. The architecture and the surrounding landscape intermesh in the folds of the building’s form, seeking balance. An interplay of privacy and openness to the landscape lies at the heart of this complex and organic architecture.
UPMC Mercy recently unveiled the facility’s renovated eighth floor featuring 18 acuity adaptable patient rooms. The 19,900 square foot project, led by Pittsburgh and Columbus, Ohio-based DesignGroup, provides additional bed capacity and swing space for the entire building, making possible future upgrades and renovations in other units throughout the hospital. The DesignGroup team was able to expedite the project supporting UPMC’s ability to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The new pharmacy on the corner of Jūrmalas gatve and Dzirciema street is not just a building, but rather a free-standing pavilion or environmental installation. Its overall image is modest and conceptually assertive, but at the same time keenly different from the surrounding urban environment and attractively expressing the contents of the building.
Harrison Bainbridge Urgent Care is Bainbridge Island’s first 24/7 urgent care facility. It consists of 25,000 square feet of primary, urgent, and specialty medical care with laboratory and diagnostic services. Coates Design Architects was chosen to fulfill ambitious goals: patient-centered care that is both innovative in its approach as well as cost-effective. The client required a building that was environmentally-friendly, low-cost, and could be built quickly to allow for immediate patient care. All of these goals, and more, were met in the final design for this one-of-a-kind facility.
The Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme (The Mediterranean Center for Human Sciences) houses a human and social sciences research and training institute, specialized in the Mediterranean world.
Program: Pediatric orthopedic care facility with an outpatient surgical suite, diagnostic clinic and radiology department, rehabilitation clinic, orthotics and prosthetics manufacturing, patient and family support services, and administrative offices. It also includes an outdoor rehabilitation therapy garden, outdoor gathering/event space, conference space, and subterranean parking garage.
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