The footbridge connects Tulsa’s Gathering Place park to riverside trails in the latest collaboration between Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates and Schlaich Bergermann Partner.
A White Knight in the Land of Black Gold: An Oklahoma architect fills a void on Main Street and helps bring hope to a community with a Modernist field office for a family-run oil company.
Owner: Chickasaw Nation Health System Completion Date: July 2010 Program: A three-story, 370,425-square-foot medical center combining a hospital, outpatient clinics, and an emergency department. Located on a 230-acre plot outside of Ada, the project replaces the Chickasaw Nation's former hospital there, which the community had outgrown. The new center includes a surgical suite with four operating rooms; a diagnostic imaging department; outpatient clinics for pediatrics, behavioral health, cardiology, and other specialties; a pharmacy; and a chapel. Design concept and solution: In designing the largest public facility supported by the Chickasaw government, the architects were charged with treating the hospital as