To guide the most significant redevelopment project in its history, Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota collaborated with Ellerbe Becket, an AECOM company, to develop a vision that merges architecture, landscape and art in a way that is transforming the healthcare experience. The project reaches beyond the institution to transform its urban neighborhood by establishing a revitalized “sense of place.”<\/p>\n
The project expands the campus with a new LEED\u00ae Gold-certified Specialty Care Center, which houses specialty clinics \u2013 including hematology and oncology \u2013 as well as an outpatient pharmacy and retail center, connected to a new parking structure. A curved, glass skybridge links to the existing hospital. More than 9,000 square feet of the building’s roof is covered with plant materials and an embracing plaza connects to healing gardens.<\/p>\n
Upgrades to existing facilities include a new main entry and a seven-story bed tower addition. The expansion offers enlarged and enhanced operating rooms, a new emergency department, new neonatal and pediatric intensive care units, a new cardiovascular center and an inside-the-hospital Ronald McDonald House. All existing patient rooms are being converted to private rooms with sleep-in space for parents. Extensive use of glass along the street allows abundant daylight to reach the interior public spaces, while providing important connections between inside and outside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5099,"template":"","tags":[],"city":[148],"class_list":["post-20239","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","city-minneapolis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/baltics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/20239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/baltics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/baltics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/baltics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/baltics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/20239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/baltics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/baltics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/baltics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20239"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/baltics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=20239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}