Hospital Pavilion, Penn Medicine West Philadelphia Campus, American Architecture, Images
Hospital Pavilion for The University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Healthcare Building, USA – design by Foster + Partners
May 5, 2017
Hospital Pavilion
Architects: Foster + Partners
Location: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
University of Pennsylvania Announces $1.5 Billion Hospital Pavilion

The University of Pennsylvania announced the groundbreaking for the construction of a new hospital on Penn Medicine?s West Philadelphia campus designed by Foster + Partners as part of PennFirst, an Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) team. The Pavilion will house 500 private patient rooms and 47 operating rooms in a 1.5 million square foot, 16-story facility on the former site of Penn Tower. It will house inpatient care for cancer, heart and vascular medicine and surgery, neurology and neurosurgery, as well as a new emergency department. At the heart of the new hospital?s design is flexibility to adapt to the rapidly evolving healthcare field.
The new Pavilion is linked to its neighbors on the Penn campus, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the adjacent Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine as well as the train station via a network of public bridges and walkways making the movement of people around the campus legible and easy. Special care was taken in the development of the urban realm creating pedestrianized routes and landscaped gardens and plazas to enhance the public experi...