Modern Healthcare Magazine Recognizes Monter Cancer Center for Outstanding Architectural Design
September 17, 2007
Topping 183 facilities for one of nine awards, the Monter Cancer Center recently received honorable mention recognition in Modern Healthcare magazine for its architectural design.
The facility, designed by the Philadelphia-based architecture and design firm EwingCole, was transformed from industrial space used as a defense manufacturing plant dating back to World War II when it was operated by Sperry Gyroscope Co. The building also served as the temporary home of the first United Nations while its permanent headquarters was being built in Manhattan. It was later used by Lockheed Martin and other defense manufacturers. Among other features, three 120-foot-long skylights were preserved to exploit sunlight in the patient care area, allowing bamboo trees to thrive in the entrance and creating a peaceful garden atmosphere inside an otherwise large, necessarily equipped space.
The facility allows cancer patients the luxury of receiving all of their care in a conveniently-located, state-of-the-art building, with ample parking, that gives off an air of natural serenity to better promote energy, healing and recovery. “We’re thrilled to achieve recognition for this marvelous facility,” said Maurice LaBonne, the North Shore-LIJ Health System’s senior vice president of facilities services. “This is a prestigious, very competitive awards competition. To be selected from 183 other facilities is truly an honor.” According to Andy Jarvis, CEO of EwingCole, converting the World War II-era manufacturing plant into an ambulatory care pavilion was an audacious task, with a uniquely difficult architectural challenge—one that North Shore-LIJ has transformed into a promising space for reducing many of the anxieties associated with complex cancer treatments. Media Contact: Terry Lynam/Kristen Longo 516-465-2600 |
