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2024 IIDA 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

    Whitman-Walker Health, Max Robinson Center

    Photos by Anice Hoachlander
    • Location

      D.C. (District of Columbia)

    • Firm

      Perkins&Will

    • Category

      Ambulatory (specialty clinic)

    • Award

      Best of Competition

    • 2024 HDA Amb Special Perkins Will Whitman 1
    • 2024 HDA Amb Special Perkins Will Whitman 2
    • 2024 HDA Amb Special Perkins Will Whitman 5
    • 2024 HDA Amb Special Perkins Will Whitman 3
    • 2024 HDA Amb Special Perkins Will Whitman 4
  • Project Title

    Allegheny Health Network (AHN) Forbes Hospital Emergency Department Behavioral Health Suite

    Photos by Michael Longo
    • Location

      Monroeville, Pennsylvania

    • Firm

      IKM Architecture

    • Category

      Hospitals (psychiatric)

    • Award

      Transformation and Innovation

    • 2024 HDA Hosp Psych IK March Allegheny 1
    • 2024 HDA Hosp Psych IK March Allegheny 2
    • 2024 HDA Hosp Psych IK March Allegheny 3
    • 2024 HDA Hosp Psych IK March Allegheny 7
    • 2024 HDA Hosp Psych IK March Allegheny 9
  • Project Title

    Cooper University Health Care Moorestown Campus

    Photos by Halkin Mason Photography
    • Location

      Moorestown, New Jersey

    • Firm

      Array Architects

    • Category

      Ambulatory (surgery center)

    • Award

      Category Winner

    • 2024 HDA Amb Surg Array Arch Cooper 2
    • 2024 HDA Amb Surg Array Arch Cooper 3
    • 2024 HDA Amb Surg Array Arch Cooper 7
    • 2024 HDA Amb Surg Array Arch Cooper 8
    • 2024 HDA Amb Surg Array Arch Cooper 10
  • Project Title

    UChicago Medicine Crown Point

    Photos by Mark Herboth
    • Location

      Crown Point, Indiana

    • Firm

      Perkins&Will

    • Category

      Ambulatory (surgery center)

    • Award

      Category Winner

    • 2024 HDA Amb Surg Perkins Will U Chi Crown 2
    • 2024 HDA Amb Surg Perkins Will U Chi Crown 3
    • 2024 HDA Amb Surg Perkins Will U Chi Crown 4
    • 2024 HDA Amb Surg Perkins Will U Chi Crown 5
    • 2024 HDA Amb Surg Perkins Will U Chi Crown 8
    • 2024 HDA Amb Surg Perkins Will U Chi Crown 10
  • Project Title

    Rush University Medical Center Joan & Paul Rubschlager Building

    Photos by Dan Schwalm
    • Location

      Chicago

    • Firm

      HDR

    • Category

      Ambulatory (cancer center)

    • Award

      Category Winner

    • 2024 HDA Amb Cancer HDR Rush 1
    • 2024 HDA Amb Cancer HDR Rush 4
    • 2024 HDA Amb Cancer HDR Rush 5
    • 2024 HDA Amb Cancer HDR Rush 8
    • 2024 HDA Amb Cancer HDR Rush 2
  • Project Title

    Texas Children's Hospital North Austin Campus

    Photos by Albert Vecerka/Esto and Slyworks Photography
    • Location

      Dallas

    • Firm

      Page

    • Category

      Ambulatory (pediatric)

    • Award

      Category Winner

    • 2024 HDA Amb Ped Page Texas Child 3
    • 2024 HDA Amb Ped Page Texas Child 4
    • 2024 HDA Amb Ped Page Texas Child 5
    • 2024 HDA Amb Ped Page Texas Child 8
    • 2024 HDA Amb Ped Page Texas Child 9
  • Project Title

    Cook Family Health Education and Learning (HEAL) Wellness Center at Houston Methodist

    Photos by Albert Vecerka/Esto
    • Location

      Woodlands, Texas

    • Firm

      Page

    • Category

      Ambulatory (specialty clinic)

    • Award

      Category Winner

    • 2024 HDA Amb Spec Page Cookfam 2
    • 2024 HDA Amb Spec Page Cookfam 3
    • 2024 HDA Amb Spec Page Cookfam 4
    • 2024 HDA Amb Spec Page Cookfam 6
    • 2024 HDA Amb Spec Page Cookfam 1
  • Project Title

    West Park Healthcare Centre

    Photos by Laura Peters
    • Location

      York, Ontario (Canada)

    • Firm

      CannonDesign + Montgomery Sisam Architects

    • Category

      Extended Care & Assisted Living Facilities (long-term care)

    • Award

      Category Winner

    • 2024 HDA Ext Care Long Cannon West Park 2
    • 2024 HDA Ext Care Long Cannon West Park 3
    • 2024 HDA Ext Care Long Cannon West Park 4
    • 2024 HDA Ext Care Long Cannon West Park 7
    • 2024 HDA Ext Care Long Cannon West Park 8
  • Project Title

    Oak Cottage Behavioral Health Facility at Maple Lane

    Photos by Aaron Locke
    • Location

      Rochester, Washington

    • Firm

      BCRA + BWBR

    • Category

      Extended Care & Assisted Living Facilities (mental health)

    • Award

      Category Winner

    • 2024 HDA Ext Care Mental BCR Abwbr Oak 1
    • 2024 HDA Ext Care Mental BCR Abwbr Oak 4
    • 2024 HDA Ext Care Mental BCR Abwbr Oak 5
    • 2024 HDA Ext Care Mental BCR Abwbr Oak 6
    • 2024 HDA Ext Care Mental BCR Abwbr Oak 8
  • Project Title

    Masonic Homes Covina, Citrus Heights Health Center

    Photos by Lawrence Anderson
    • Location

      Covina, California

    • Firm

      SmithGroup

    • Category

      Extended Care & Assisted Living Facilities (skilled nursing facility)

    • Award

      Category Winner

    • 2024 HDA Ext Care Skilled Nurs Smith Grp Masonic 2
    • 2024 HDA Ext Care Skilled Nurs Smith Grp Masonic 3
    • 2024 HDA Ext Care Skilled Nurs Smith Grp Masonic 6
    • 2024 HDA Ext Care Skilled Nurs Smith Grp Masonic 8
    • 2024 HDA Ext Care Skilled Nurs Smith Grp Masonic 9
  • Project Title

    Malone Family Tower

    Photos by Anton Grassl
    • Location

      Portland, Maine

    • Firm

      Perkins&Will

    • Category

      Hospitals (academic / teaching hospitals)

    • Award

      Category Winner

    • 2024 HDA Hosp Academic Perkins Will Malone 3
    • 2024 HDA Hosp Academic Perkins Will Malone 5
    • 2024 HDA Hosp Academic Perkins Will Malone 6
    • 2024 HDA Hosp Academic Perkins Will Malone 7
    • 2024 HDA Hosp Academic Perkins Will Malone 9
  • Project Title

    ThedaCare - Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Center

    Photos courtesy of firm
    • Location

      Appleton, Wisconsin

    • Firm

      HGA

    • Category

      Hospitals (community)

    • Award

      Category Winner

    • 2024 HDA Hosp Comm HGA Theda Care 1
    • 2024 HDA Hosp Comm HGA Theda Care 2
    • 2024 HDA Hosp Comm HGA Theda Care 6
    • 2024 HDA Hosp Comm HGA Theda Care 7
    • 2024 HDA Hosp Comm HGA Theda Care 10
  • Project Title

    Medical West Hospital

    Photos by Tom Harris
    • Location

      Bessemer, Alabama

    • Firm

      KPS Group and HKS

    • Category

      Hospitals (community)

    • Award

      Category Winner

    • 2024 HDA Hosp Comm HKS Med West 2
    • 2024 HDA Hosp Comm HKS Med West 5
    • 2024 HDA Hosp Comm HKS Med West 6
    • 2024 HDA Hosp Comm HKS Med West 7
    • 2024 HDA Hosp Comm HKS Med West 10
  • Project Title

    Boston Children's Hospital Hale Family Building

    Photos by Robert Benson
    • Location

      Boston

    • Firm

      Shepley Bulfinch

    • Category

      Hospitals (pediatric)

    • Award

      Category Winner

    • 2024 HDA Hosp Pedia Shep Finch Bost Child 1
    • 2024 HDA Hosp Pedia Shep Finch Bost Child 2
    • 2024 HDA Hosp Pedia Shep Finch Bost Child 4
    • 2024 HDA Hosp Pedia Shep Finch Bost Child 8
    • 2024 HDA Hosp Pedia Shep Finch Bost Child 9
  • Project Title

    Methodist Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital CVICU Expansion

    Photos by Chad Baumer Photography
    • Location

      Memphis

    • Firm

      Gresham Smith

    • Category

      Hospitals (pediatric)

    • Award

      Category Winner

    • 2024 HDA Hosp Pedi G Smith Methodist 3
    • 2024 HDA Hosp Pedi G Smith Methodist 4
    • 2024 HDA Hosp Pedi G Smith Methodist 5
    • 2024 HDA Hosp Pedi G Smith Methodist 6
    • 2024 HDA Hosp Pedi G Smith Methodist 8
  • Project Title

    Sarasota Memorial Hospital Cornell Behavioral Health Pavilion

    Photos by Randy Van Duinen Photography
    • Location

      Sarasota, Florida

    • Firm

      Gresham Smith

    • Category

      Hospitals (psychiatric)

    • Award

      Category Winner

    • 2024 HDA Hosp Psych Gresh Smith Sarasota 2
    • 2024 HDA Hosp Psych Gresh Smith Sarasota 3
    • 2024 HDA Hosp Psych Gresh Smith Sarasota 4
    • 2024 HDA Hosp Psych Gresh Smith Sarasota 6
    • 2024 HDA Hosp Psych Gresh Smith Sarasota 7
  • Project Title

    University Health Women's & Children's Hospital

    Photos by Magda Biernat
    • Location

      San Antonio

    • Firm

      Marmon Mok Architecture in Association with ZGF Architects

    • Category

      Hospitals (women's)

    • Award

      Category Winner

    • 2024 HDA Hosp Wom Mmk ZGF Univ Health 1
    • 2024 HDA Hosp Wom Mmk ZGF Univ Health 3
    • 2024 HDA Hosp Wom Mmk ZGF Univ Health 5
    • 2024 HDA Hosp Wom Mmk ZGF Univ Health 6
    • 2024 HDA Hosp Wom Mmk ZGF Univ Health 9

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, 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 October of 2024. The Best of Competition Award and the Transformation and Innovation Award winners will be announced at the Healthcare Design Awards Winner’s Celebration in November of 2024, 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 IIDA Design Competitions Manager at competitions@iida.org