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Healthcare Design Awards promote projects that heal

Healthcare Facilities

Healthcare Design Awards promote projects that heal

Awards program highlights trends in healthcare facility designs.


By AIA | October 2, 2020
Shirley Ryan Therapy Gardens

Therapy Gardens at the SHirley Ryan AbilityLab by HDR | Gensler in association with Clive Wilkinson Architects, a 2020 recipient. Photo: Dave Burk

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) is recognizing eight projects with its 2020 Healthcare Design Awards.

The awards recognize cutting-edge designs that help solve aesthetic, civic, urban and social problems while also being functional and sustainable. Recipients can include healthcare building design, healthcare planning and healthcare design-oriented research. This year’s projects were awarded by a seven-person jury in the following categories.

Category A
Built: Less than $25 million (construction cost).

— Hampton County Health Clinic, Varnville, South Carolina | Liollio Architecture

— Mountain Park Health Center Tempe, Tempe, Arizona | SMITHGROUP

— Mount Sinai Kyabirwa Ambulatory Surgical Facility, Kyabirwa, Jinja, Uganda | Kliment Halsband Architects

— Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago | HDR | Gensler in association with Clive Wilkinson Architects

— Warren Clinic, Tulsa, Oklahoma | CallisonRTKL

Category B
Built: More than $25 million (construction cost).

— Duke Student Wellness Center, Durham, North Carolina | Duda|Paine Architects

— MSK Nassau, Uniondale, New York | EwingCole
 

Category F
Master planning urban design for healthcare settings.

— Saving Main Street: Haxtun Hospital District, Haxton, Colorado | HDR

Visit AIA’s website for more information on the AIA/AAH Healthcare Design Awards.

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