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The new 334,000 SF, nine-story Randall Children?s Hospital at Legacy Emanuel consolidates previously dispersed pediatric care and creates a new identity for the children?s hospital on the Legacy Emanuel Medical Center campus in Portland, Oregon. It houses 165 inpatient beds for Acute Care, Neonatal Intensive Care, and Pediatric Intensive Care; the Children?s Cancer and Blood Disorder Unit; a new Children?s Emergency Department; and a Day Surgery Unit with direct access to surgery in the adult hospital.
Courtesy of ZGF Architects – Photographs : Nick Merrick / Hendrich Blessing, Eckert & Eckert
A tunnel connection, a first floor gallery connection and a second floor bridge provide convenient access to the existing hospital?s other support services. The top floor of the new hospital is reserved for future growth. The project also includes a new 418-car parking structure as well as new landscaping, street furniture, sidewalks and pedestrian pathways that enhance the sense of place and arrival to the Legacy Emanuel campus. Courtesy of ZGF Architects – Photographs : Nick Merrick / Hendrich Blessing, Eckert & Eckert

Design Drivers: Designing a healing environment for children and families under stress is a unique opportunity. At the outset of the project, work sessions were held with Randall Children?s Hospital leadership to establish ?Guiding Principles? for the design of the new hospital; 10 ?value...