Dallas, Texas
Owner: Bremner Duke Healthcare Real Estate
Completion Date: March 2011
Design concept and solution: Adopting a semicircular plan for the concrete structure, the architects conceived it as a hard outer shell encircling a soft atrium space. The outside of the semicircle, facing the highway, is shaped by a series of concentric rings clad in glass, metal panels, and solar screens, which together form a shiny, metallic skin representing the high-tech aspects of Baylor's treatment program. On the other side of the building, where patients enter, surfaces of warmer-hued cement and limestone emphasize the embracing curve of the inside of the semicircle, which opens into a light-filled double-height atrium. The architects chose a warm interior palette favoring local materials: limestone flooring, limestone wall panels with wood accents, and dark wood finishes in the dining room. To integrate the center with its neighbors, Perkins+Will extended the curve of the building to form a crescent-shaped bridge that leads to the inpatient center, the research building, and a parking garage across the way. This circular plan defines a new plaza that serves as a gateway to the south side of the campus.
Total construction cost: $127 million
People
Owner: Bremner Duke Healthcare Real Estate
Architect
Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit: Project Director – Cary Garner, AIA Interior designer: Courtney Johnston, IIDA, LEED AP
Engineer(s):
Landscape consultant
12770 Coit Road
Mep/fp/communications consultant
Telecom/Communications
Acoustic/audiovisual consultant
Artwork
Food service consultant
JEM Associates
Geotechnical consultant
General contractor
Photographer(s):
Hedrich Blessing Photographers |
Products
Exterior cladding
Metal/glass curtain wall: Kawneer standard and custom 1600 Sys 1.
EIFS, ACM, or other: Glass Fiber reinforced concrete - GFRC Specialties Inc.
Roofing
Glazing Skylights: Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope Laminated Glass
Doors Metal doors: Curries Wood doors: VT Industries Architectural Wood doors Special doors: Linear Accelerator and High Dose Room doors - Lone Star X-Ray Neutron Shielding doors Upswinging doors, other: Overhead coiling doors - Marathon Industrial Doors and Overhead Door Company All Glass Entrances: Arch Aluminum and Glass Co.,Inc
Hardware Hinges: Ives Closers: LCN Exit devices: Von Duprin Pulls: Ives, CR Laurence Security devices: Proximity Reader, Pyramid series from Farpointe Data Cabinet hardware: Blum, Grass
Interior finishes
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Cabinetwork and custom woodwork:
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Plumbing |
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