Seton Medical Center took the need to expand its surgery area as an opportunity to upgrade the rather heavy, dour visage of its 1970s vintage brick facility.
Josef Hoffmann’s Pruckersdorf Sanatorium of 1904 was a functional and aesthetic masterpiece that might have set a precedent for hospitals in Austria—but didn’t.
According to Rafael Moneo, who designed the Gregorio Marañon Maternity and Pediatrics Hospital in Madrid with specialist José María de la Mata, a hospital “should be clear, clean, and luminous.
This newly constructed, 27,000 square-foot diagnostic and treatment facility in rural New York is part of a 350-acre campus that serves children and adults with profound neurological and developmental impairments.
An effort to strengthen and clarify the overall site plan of the medical campus with thoughtful landscaping and circulation generated an unusual opportunity to improve the medical center complex with a new addition.