When officials at Banner Health asked designers from NBBJ’s Seattle office to create their new, 452,238-square-foot hospital in west Phoenix, they said they wanted the place to be “warm.” But NBBJ design principal Christian Carlson, AIA, disagreed with the term. “What does ‘warm’ mean in Phoenix?” he asks. “How about a cool white tent in the desert.” The folks at Banner were soon convinced, and the design team began their research. “It’s rare to build a hospital from the ground up,” says Carlson about the site—a 50-acre stretch of undeveloped desert that sits at the crossroads of two major freeways and is surrounded by several growing communities. “Our thought was, if we really got to do it right, what would we do?”
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