Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven Hospital and Sherman Hospital are among five healthcare facilities recognized for their environmentally responsive design in “Code Green: Examining the Prognosis for Sustainability in Healthcare,” in the August issue of Eco-Structure magazine.

Sherman Hospital opened its new healthcare campus in Elgin, Illinois, in December. The hospital’s 15-acre geothermal lake, which is expected to save the hospital more than $1 million annually over conventional heating and cooling costs, was a creative response that began with the need to manage storm water runoff for the 15-acre site and ...[more]

NEW HAVEN, CT – Smilow Cancer Hospital was dedicated at Yale-New Haven Hospital today, giving southern New England its most comprehensive care facility.

Speakers at the dedication of the 511,000 square foot, 14-story cancer center included Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell, Yale-New Haven Hospital president Marna Borgstrom, Yale President Richard Levin, Yale Medical School dean Robert Alpern, and philanthropist Joel Smilow (Yale ‘54).

President Borgstrom personally acknowledged the “vision, experience, and diligence of our architects at Shepley Bulfinch” and Turner Construction, and noted that ...[more]

The Meditation Room creates an island of repose, a compelling counterpoint to the powerful medicine practiced at the University of Michigan’s Cardiovascular Center. The design creates a piece of architecture and art that gives form to the desire of the Center’s in-house ministry for a space to nourish the human spirit that would be active, meditative, and non-denominational. Narrow niches in the limestone wall are backlit using fiber-optics to give the impression of filtered daylight. A writing desk nearby holds paper and pencil so that visitors can write down their thoughts, prayers, and notes ...[more]

Rankings of “America’s Best Hospitals” published today by US News and World Report include nineteen hospitals and medical centers which Shepley Bulfinch is proud to count among our clients. Six of those (marked *) are among only 19 hospitals nationwide to make the report’s Honor Roll.

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Brigham and Women’s Hospital*

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Lahey Clinic

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas

Maine Medical Center

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

Massachusetts General Hospital*

McLean Hospital

NY Presbyterian University Hospital*

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital

Rush University Medical Center

Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital

University of Michigan Health Systems*

Vanderbilt University Medical Center*

Virginia Commonwealth University Health Systems

Yale-New Haven Hospital*

Recent projects for these clients include the University of Michigan’s new Cardiovascular ...[more]

The Cardiovascular Center at the University of Michigan is still making news nine months after its June 2007 opening.

The programming and space planning of the 420,000 sf Center, located on the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus, is highlighted in “Extreme Makeover” in the March 2008 issue of Health Facilities Management magazine, while its construction and structural engineering at the the subject of a feature piece (“Campus Core”) in the March 2008 issue of Modern Steel Construction.

Shepley Bulfinch designed the project in association with Harley Ellis Devereaux.

Architectural materials reinforce the emotional perception of the building in space. An embracing curve of curtainwall, glowing in the heart of the healthcare campus, holds the visitor and public waiting spaces in tight connection to the healing gardens inside and out.

A distinctive brick and punched window composition expresses the rectangular form of the utilitarian spaces behind the curving wall. The building meets the ground plane supported strongly with precast concrete panels with ashlar pattern.

Elise Woodward, AIA, LEED AP

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