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2023 IIDA Healthcare Design Awards
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2023 IIDA Healthcare Design Awards
The 12th annual award honors excellence and originality in healthcare interior design that is exemplary of extraordinary innovations in design concepts across 14 categories.
Project Title
Essentia Health, St. Mary's Medical Center
Photos by Halkin/Mason Photography, LLC
Duluth, Minnesota
Location
EwingCole
Firm
Hospitals | Community
Category
winner Best of Competition
Award
Project Title
Community of Hope Family Health & Birth Center
Photos by Todd Mason Photography
District of Columbia (D.C)
Location
Gensler
Firm
Ambulatory | Specialty Clinic
Category
winner Tranformation and Innovation Award
Award
Project Title
FirstHealth of the Carolinas - Moore Regional Hospital Cancer Center
Photos by Sterling Stevens
Pinehurst, North Carolina
Location
CPL
Firm
Ambulatory | Cancer Center
Category
winner Category Winner
Award
Project Title
Tandläkargruppen Täby Centrum
Photos by Armin Hadzic
Stockholm, Täby, Sweden
Location
Living Design of Sweden
Firm
Ambulatory | Pediatric
Category
winner Category Winner
Award
Project Title
St. Jude Family Commons
Photos by Eric Laignel
Memphis, Tennessee
Location
ICRAVE
Firm
Ambulatory | Pediatric
Category
winner Category Winner
Award
Project Title
Corso Atlanta
Photos by Thomas Watkins Photography
Atlanta, GA
Location
THW Design
Firm
Extended Care & Assisted Living Facilities | Independent Living
Category
winner Category Winner
Award
Project Title
Atrium Health David L. Conlan Center at Carolinas Rehabilitation
Photos by Nick McGinn
Charlotte, North Carolina
Location
NBBJ
Firm
Hospitals | Academic / Teaching Hospitals
Category
winner Category Winner
Award
Project Title
Acibadem Atasehir Hospital
Photos by Orhan Kolukisa
Ataşehir, Istanbul, Turkey
Location
Gensler
Firm
Hospitals | Community
Category
winner Category Winner
Award
Project Title
Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s
Photos by Kim Rodgers
Los Angeles
Location
HGA
Firm
Hospitals | Pediatric
Category
winner Category Winner
Award
Project Title
Renown Health Regional Campus, Tahoe Tower Level 5 NICU/PICU
Photos by Garrett Rowland Photography
Reno
Location
Perkins&Will
Firm
Hospitals | Pediatric
Category
winner Category Winner
Award
Project Title
Children's Pavilion
Photos by Halkin Mason Photography
Norfolk, Virgina
Location
Array Architects
Firm
Hospitals | Psychiatric
Category
winner Category Winner
Award
Project Title
Virginia Mason Birthing Center
Photos by Kevin Scott
Seattle, Washington
Location
Perkins&Will
Firm
Hospitals | Women's
Category
winner Category Winner
Award
Competition Guidelines
Guidelines
Submission Requirements

All submissions will be done electronically, no hard copy submissions will be accepted. To enter a project into this competition, you will need to prepare and submit the following:

Written Component

Your firm's contact information including name, address, phone number, and email

Your design project's information including name and location
Project description: a brief project summary (50-word maximum)
Challenge statement: a description of your design challenge (250-word maximum)
Solution statement: a description of specific solutions to project challenges (250-word maximum)

Images

Please submit color images of your completed project, in JPG or JPEG format with a maximum file size of 1MB. You may submit captions to your images, not to exceed 50 words. Take note of the following additional guidelines:

Submit 7-10 color images total - of these images only one (1) exterior image is permitted, and a maximum of three (3) floorplans

No composite images allowed - only one photograph per image upload
Use numbers to name your image files, in order of uploads (01, 02, 03, etc). Please use the following format for floor plans: "floorplan1, floorplan2, floorplan3"
Do not reference or include your design/architectural firm name/logo in the images.
Images may be edited to improve contrast ratio, color balance, and composition through cropping only
Images may not be edited to add, remove, or alter any aspect or element of the project including its context. Images should represent the project as it exists in the built environment
Conceptual renderings will not be accepted

Categories

Projects must be submitted in one of the categories below. All projects are eligible for the Transformation and Innovation Award, which recognizes a project that is leading the industry and advancing healthcare outcomes. Categories may be renamed, consolidated, or eliminated (and projects reclassified) at the discretion of IIDA and/or the jurors.

Ambulatory (specialty clinic, pediatric, cancer center, ambulatory surgery center, or urgent care center)

Hospitals (community, academic/teaching hospitals, pediatric, women's, or psychiatric)
Extended Care and Assisted Living Facilities (skilled nursing facility, mental health, long-term care, or hospice/palliative care)

Judging

The winning design projects are chosen by a jury of design professionals. Submissions are judged on excellence in aesthetics, design, creativity, and function as well as the suitability of the design solution to the project challenge and the successful integration of the elements of design. The jury reserves the right to not select a winner from the entries submitted.

Prize

Category winners are scheduled to be announced in September of 2023. The Best of Competition Award and the Transformation and Innovation Award winners will be announced at the Healthcare Design Awards Winner’s Celebration in fall of 2023, at IIDA Headquarters in Chicago. Winners will be featured in the Healthcare Design magazine and on IIDA.org. Winners will also receive official digital assets, including competition winner logos for self-promotion, coverage and mention on IIDA’s social media accounts, and in an official press release distributed to leading industry outlets and media partners.

For questions or more information, contact Veronica Whitaker at vwhitaker@iida.org.

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