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.
The Patterson OB/GYN Clinic is located amid a suburban complex of low-rise office buildings that are faced with mass-produced Georgian columns and artificial colonial details.
Located on the Fitzsimmons campus of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, the Nighthorse Campbell Native Health Building contains a variety of outpatient and long-distance medical consultation services.
Certain building types provoke certain emotional responses from people: no more so than in the case of the healthcare center, believe architects Jesús Irisarri Castro and Guadalupe Piñera Manso.
Believing that health centers are usually defined by an overly rigid spatial organization marked by corridors and consulting rooms, architects Jamie Coll and Judith Leclerc set out to develop a new typology.