2017 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner
Burwood Hospital
Three practices have combined their expertise and knowledge of the site into one collaborative team. Every aspect of the new Burwood Hospital is focused on the staff and on patients’ wellbeing, often through long rehabilitation stays. The sympathetically-scaled ward buildings – with their nod to Canterbury’s architectural heritage – run off a central circulation spine, aligning circulation to other hospital buildings. Public spaces are deployed central to the large building with internal courtyards, materiality and colour, while all ward rooms have views to landscaped parkland. Intermediate resting and family spaces along each ward provide for comfortable patient stays. Extensive use of natural ventilation allows patients personal control of their space, and together with extensive natural lighting contribute to the homely environment the architects have explored throughout this much-celebrated and significant new facility.
- Practice
- Jasmax , Klein and Sheppard & Rout Architects in association
- Category
- Public Architecture
- Location
- Canterbury
