The 2013 Healthcare Environment Awards, co-sponsored by Contract magazine, in association with The Center for Health Design, Healthcare Design 2013, and the Vendome Group. Each year, projects are recognized in acute care, ambulatory care, health and fitness, conceptual and student design categories.
The Dale and Frances Hughes Cancer Center was the winner in the ambulatory care category. The center at the Pocono Medical Center in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, was inspired by the surrounding Pocono Mountains.
The L-shaped building surrounds two sides of a landscaped courtyard. Main circulation spaces curve, refelcting the topography of hills. On the exterior, the glass and taut, orthogonal, white metal insulated panels contrast with the organic, sinuous garden, the article said.
A three-story lobby, which narrows and then opens broadly to a view of the courtyard, acts as a metaphor for the compressed spaces between mountains that open to great expanses. Elements of texture and nature enliven an otherwise smooth, white modernist interior.
Read the article and view images of the facility.
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