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Originally Posted by J.OT13
It's a very 70s take on hospital design. Layouts were all quite simple up until that time, often a cross, a T, an H or a star. This hospital reminds me of Ottawa General, opened in 1980, with two parallel slabs on a podium, half the rooms facing the other wall (north east tower wasn't quite as high when the building opened).
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The initial designs for Providence Health were by IBI (now Arcadis) and showed a similar arrangement of parallel blocks, with different purposes, linked by a common podium. Earlier in the process the hospital was expected to be smaller, initially, and one version of the design had the main wing running east-west. There was a later decision to fund most of the hospital in one hit, so the need to be able to add elements was reduced, although there is space for future expansion to the east.
When the RFP was issued for construction and design, PCL was chosen over Ellis Don, and they in turn brought in HDR with Stantec as the architects, so the detailed design may well match buildings elsewhere. PCL, with Diamond Schmitt as designers will build the linked 11-storey Clinical Support and Research Centre, shown as the more golden coloured building on the left of the image, linked to the main block by a twin-height skybridge. That starts construction in 2025, with a 2029 completion. The main hospital completes in 2026 and should open in 2027.
The slightly lower, bronze clad western half of the main hospital has the ambulatory care and clinics, and the taller block behind houses the wards, with every room a single occupancy room. For seismic reasons there's no basement plant, so there's an intermediate double height plant floor part way up the building, and more on the rooftop (which also has a location for a helipad with an elevator to the operating suite). Most of the other buildings shown as shadowed, are expected to be other related uses; a hotel, a first nations health centre, and commercial offices (likely to be healthcare clinics).
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