AIA Honors Two NBBJ Projects with the Design Industry's Top Healthcare Awards
AIA bestows its premier healthcare design awards to Montage Health Ohana Center for Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health and the Massachusetts General Hospital Phillip and Susan Ragon Building. From outpatient centers to academic hospitals, the award program celebrates innovative healthcare design and planning projects that solve complex urban, social and aesthetic issues. Read on below for more details about each awarded project.
Montage Health Ohana Campus: Built Category Winner
Recognized in the built category, the Ohana Campus in Monterey, CA, is designed to heal rather than isolate. The welcoming, serpentine-shaped building provides a new model of mental health treatment for youth, intertwining care and environment as one. Nestled into Monterey’s picturesque and peaceful hillside of woodland chapparal and coast live oaks, Ohana creates an enveloping sense of calm. It unites sweeping curves, floor-to-ceiling views, expansive porches, garden paths and even a gym, to create a restorative experience for patients, their loved ones and caregivers. Mindful of resources, it is also the largest healthcare facility in the US to use mass timber.
Massachusetts General Hospital, Phillip and Susan Ragon Building: Unbuilt Category Winner
The MGH Ragon Building—the teaching hospital of Harvard University and one of the world's leading academic centers located in Boston, MA—is recognized in the unbuilt category. Designed to be the most sustainable major US hospital of its size, it will reduce carbon emissions by more than 90%. Powered by 100% renewable electricity, the building responds to the urgent needs of climate change while uniting major cancer and heart centers under one roof to expand critical services to the Boston region.
