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2022 Healthcare Design Awards

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Honoring excellence and originality in healthcare interior design that is exemplary of extraordinary innovations in design concepts across 14 categories.

Winners

  • Project Title

    Crystal Clinic Orthopaedic Center

    Images by Kendall McCaugherty
    • Location

      Akron, Ohio

    • Firm

      HGA

    • Category

      Hospitals | Community

    • Award

      Best of Competition

    • Crystal Clinic by HGA 1
    • Crystal Clinic by HGA 2
    • Crystal Clinic by HGA 3
    • Crystal Clinic by HGA 4
    • Crystal Clinic by HGA 5
  • Project Title

    Seattle Children's Odessa Brown Children's Clinic

    Images by Sean Airhart
    • Location

      Seattle, Washington

    • Firm

      NBBJ

    • Category

      Ambulatory | Pediatric

    • Award

      Transformational and Innovation Award

    • Seattle Childrens Odessa Brown Clinic by NBBJ 1
    • Seattle Childrens Odessa Brown Clinic by NBBJ 2
    • Seattle Childrens Odessa Brown Clinic by NBBJ 3
    • Seattle Childrens Odessa Brown Clinic by NBBJ 4
  • Project Title

    Bill Richards Center for Healing

    Images by Halkin Mason Photography
    • Location

      Rockville, Maryland

    • Firm

      Gensler

    • Category

      Ambulatory | Specialty Clinic

    • Award

      Transformational and Innovation Award

    • Bill Richards Center for Healing by Gensler 1
    • Bill Richards Center for Healing by Gensler 2
    • Bill Richards Center for Healing by Gensler 3
    • Bill Richards Center for Healing by Gensler 4
  • Project Title

    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute – Chestnut Hill

    Images by Robert Benson Photography
    • Location

      Newton, Massachusetts

    • Firm

      Payette

    • Category

      Ambulatory | Cancer Center

    • Award

      Category Winner

    • Dana Farber Cancer Institute by Payette 1
    • Dana Farber Cancer Institute by Payette 2
    • Dana Farber Cancer Institute by Payette 3
    • Dana Farber Cancer Institute by Payette 4
  • Project Title

    Institute for Specialized Medicine & Intervention (ISMI)

    Images by Claude-Simon Langlois
    • Location

      Kirkland, Canada

    • Firm

      HOK

    • Category

      Ambulatory | Specialty Clinic

    • Award

      Category Winner

    • ISMI 2
    • ISMI 4
    • ISMI 7
    • ISMI 8
  • Project Title

    Taikang Community Shen Garden Shenyang

    Images by Qiuxin
    • Location

      Shenyang City, China

    • Firm

      INTERSCAPE DESIGN ASSOCIATES

    • Category

      Extended Care & Assisted Living Facilities | Hospice/Palliative Care

    • Award

      Category Winner

    • Taikang Community Shen Garden Shenyang by Interscape Design Associates 1
    • Taikang Community Shen Garden Shenyang by Interscape Design Associates 2
    • Taikang Community Shen Garden Shenyang by Interscape Design Associates 3
    • Taikang Community Shen Garden Shenyang by Interscape Design Associates 4
  • Project Title

    Seattle Children's, Building Care: Diagnostic and Treatment Facility

    Images by Benjamin Benschneider
    • Location

      Seattle, Washington

    • Firm

      ZGF Architects

    • Category

      Hospitals | Pediatric

    • Award

      Category Winner

    • Seattles Children by ZGF Architects 1
    • Seattles Children by ZGF Architects 2
    • Seattles Children by ZGF Architects 3
    • Seattles Children by ZGF Architects 4

Competition 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, psychiatric)
  • Extended Care & Assisted Living Facilities (skilled nursing facility, mental health, long-term care, 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 and the Transformation and Innovation Award recipients are announced in September. The Best of Competition Award winners will be announced at the Healthcare Design Awards Reception on November 17, 2022, 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.

Past Winners