In designing Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital, a massive new hospital and medical office complex, Zimmer Gunsul Frasca proved that medical facilities can put patients first and yet still be good environmental citizens.

Kings County Hospital Center provides medical care to an underserved, largely uninsured patient population in the center of Brooklyn, N.Y.

Over time, as medical centers grow out of immediate necessity, they often sprawl into a series of haphazardly connected buildings.

Located in an economically disadvantaged neighborhood of Memphis, the Christ Community Medical Clinic provides a range of medical services from prenatal to cancer care.

An estimated 10,000 people walk through the entrance to New York City’s Bellevue Hospital every day, many of them surely unaware as they traverse Pei Cobb Freed & Partners’ new glass atrium that the hospital is one of the oldest in the Western Hemisphere.

In designing a new cardiac care center for the Baptist Medical Center in Jacksonville, Fla., Cannon Design worked to resolve conflicting programmatic needs and site issues.

When officials at Banner Health asked designers from NBBJ’s Seattle office to create their new, 452,238-square-foot hospital in west Phoenix, they said they wanted the place to be “warm.”

Set just off the axis of major highways connecting Anatolia and Europe, not far from a new airport in Istanbul, the strong, clear forms of the Anadolu Health Center project images of contemporary solidity to the surrounding countryside.

Adding a 440,000-square-foot clinic to an urban site already occupied by several buildings requires a talent for master planning, architecture, and logistics.