Alder Hey Children’s Health Park

The new building will rise out of the park on approach with an undulating profile, making it instantly recognisable and a striking and iconic gateway to Liverpool.

Central to our idea was ensuring that the majority of rooms (whether for children or staff) enjoy park views and that gardens and terraces are equally accessible to all.

Three open fingers radiate out from the atrium concourse, the distinctive entrance space, that forms the hospital’s public hub. These fingers of clinical space alternate with gardens, intertwining building and landscape.

Brief

  • create a hospital that engenders well-being and raises patients’ and visitors’ spirits by adding to their quality of life
  • integrate hospital and park for the therapeutic benefit of children, their families and staff

Results

  • a unique concept recasting Alder Hey as the Children’s Health Park and creating 'a hospital without precedent'
  • the latest thinking on infection control, patient dignity and privacy, segregation of patient, clinical and facilities management flows and technological advances

Facts

Location: Liverpool, UK
Client: Laing O'Rourke
Construction cost: £288m
Completion: 2016

Integrated services

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