Vendome Group, in conjunction with The Center for Health Design (CHD) and The Society for the Advancement of Gerontological Environments (SAGE), announces the winners of its new awards program—The Landscape Architecture Awards for Healthcare Environments.
The 2013 program recognizes designs in three specific project categories: senior care, acute care, and behavioral health.
Senior care category:
Gold Winner – Therapy Garden at Merwick Care & Rehabilitation Center – Merwick Care & Rehabilitation Center
Silver Winners – Vi Living at Silverstone – Submitted by SmithGroupJJR; and Camphill Ghent – Submitted by Dirtworks Landscape Architecture PC
Acute care category:
Gold Winner – Betty Ruth & Milton B. Hollander Healing Garden – Submitted by Towers Golde LLC
Silver Winners – Mario Lemieux Center for Blood Cancers 4th Floor Terrace Garden – Submitted by Pashek Associates, Ltd.; and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital – Therapy Trail and Garden – Submitted by Copley Wolff Design Group, Inc.
Bronze Winners – Virtua Voorhees Hospital – Submitted by HGA Architects and Engineers; UPMC Passavant Healing Garden – Submitted by Stantec; Garden of Healing and Renewal – Submitted by Professional Engineering Associates, Inc.; Duke Medical Pavilion – Submitted by Perkins+Will; Howard Hanna Healing Garden at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC – Submitted by Astorino; Estelle’s Eden – A Restorative Garden at Danbury Hospital – Submitted by Dirtworks Landscape Architecture PC
Behavioral health category:
No projects submitted under this category for 2013.
Design firms and facilities/communities were invited to submit exterior landscape architecture projects that have been completed since January 2008 for review. For more on these winning projects, check out the December digital magazines of Healthcare Design, Environments for Aging, Long-Term Living, Addiction Professional, and Behavioral Healthcare.
