Bridgepoint Health wins UK Civic Trust Award - architecture and design

Bridgepoint Health wins UK Civic Trust Award



Bridgepoint Active Healthcare has been recognized internationally with a 2016 Civic Trust Award. The Toronto project won the jurors? favour for demonstrating excellence in architecture, sustainability and universal design. The building was designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects, Stantec, KPMB and HDR.
Bridgepoint is the only award winner from Canada and one of only three from North America among a global roster of 58 projects selected from hundreds of submissions. The UK-based built environment awards program recognizes projects that demonstrate a positive social, cultural, environmental or economic benefit to the local community.
?This recognition adds to a growing list of awards for Bridgepoint, which was designed to connect this complex continuing care and rehabilitation hospital with community, with nature, and to empower patients in their own recovery by applying the principles of salutogenic design,? said Greg Colucci, principal, with Diamond Schmitt Architects. Bridgepoint optimizes its ravine setting by providing expansive views and an abundance of natural light to create an uplifting and restorative environment for patients and staff. Other key strategies are windows that allow patients lying in bed to have unobstructed sightlines, a meditative labyrinth, a therapy pool overlooking a park and a green roof terrace. The hospital?s administrative office is located in the adjacent former Don Jail (1864), which has been preserved and restored from a place of incar...
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