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Cancer center healing garden offers calming respite

Landscaped outdoor garden space features indigenous plants, a manmade stream and winding paths


The Sharon Morse II–Moffitt Cancer Center, The Villages, Fla., includes a healing garden with indigenous plants, a man-made stream and winding paths, according to the "Last Detail" feature on the Health Facilities Management website.

The garden — designed to be a calming  presence — has a covered, tile-roofed walkway that connects the cancer center to an adjacent hospital and echoes Spanish-influenced architecture of the campus.

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September 16, 2014


Topic Area: Architecture


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