Foster + Partners has announced the groundbreaking of a new $1.5 billion hospital for the University of Pennsylvania?s West Philadelphia Penn Medicine campus. Working in a multi-firm collaboration called PennFirst (with healthcare design firm HDR, engineers BR+A and construction management teams from L.F. Driscoll and Balfour Beatty), the architects have designed a 16-story facility known as ?The Pavilion? to house 500 private patient rooms, 47 operating rooms and a total of 1.5 million square feet of healthcare space.

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Foster + Partners has announced the groundbreaking of a new $1.5 billion hospital for the University of Pennsylvania?s West Philadelphia Penn Medicine campus. Working in a multi-firm collaboration called PennFirst (with healthcare design firm HDR, engineers BR+A and construction management teams from L.F. Driscoll and Balfour Beatty), the architects have designed a 16-story facility known as ?The Pavilion? to house 500 private patient rooms, 47 operating rooms and a total of 1.5 million square feet of healthcare space.Located on the former site of Penn Tower, the new facility will contain a cancer inpatient care center, the department of heart and vascular medicine and surgery, the neurology and and neurosurgery departments, and a new emergency wing. Key to the hospital?s design was flexibility that will allow the building to adapt to the needs of the rapidly-evolving healthcare field, and connectivity to the wider ...