AIA Selects Seven Projects for Healthcare Design Awards

WASHINGTON – September 13, 2022 – The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) is recognizing seven projects with its 2022 Healthcare Design Awards.

The awards recognize cutting-edge designs that help solve aesthetic, civic, urban and social problems while also being functional and sustainable. Eligible projects can include health care building design, health care planning and health care design-oriented research. This year’s projects were awarded by a six-person jury in the following categories:

Category A: Built: Less than $25 million (construction cost)

• Rural Ortho Clinic, Cedarburg, Wisconsin | Johnsen Schmaling Architects

Category B: Built: More than $25 million (construction cost)

• Center for Health & Wellbeing, Winter Park, Florida | Duda|Paine Architects

Category C: Renovations/Remodeled: Primarily built within existing hospital or clinical space or adaptive reuse of an existing building to a health care use.

• Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts | Payette
• UCSF Connie Frank Transplant Center, San Francisco | NBBJ

Category D: Unbuilt: Must be commissioned for compensation by a client with the authority and intention to build.

• Kyabirwa Surgical Center Ward, Jinja, Uganda | GKG
• Montage Health Ohana Center, Monterey, California | NBBJ
• Uganda Women's and Children's Clinic, Mityana, Uganda | LS3P Go Design Inc.

Visit AIA’s website for more information on the Healthcare Design Awards.        

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