https://www.gosh.nhs.uk/press-releases/gosh-announces-its-new-front-door-winner/
GOSH announces design competition winner for new clinical building
12 Oct 2017, 1:33 p.m.
GOSH announces the winner of architectural design competition for a new clinical building to put ‘the Child First and Always’. Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH) is pleased to announce that John Sisk & Son Ltd with BDP Ltd have been selected as the preferred prime contractor with multi-disciplinary design team for Phase 4 of the Redevelopment Programme at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH).
The new clinical building on Great Ormond Street in central London will become the hospital’s new ‘front door’, replacing outdated facilities with a high quality environment consistent with the hospital’s world-renowned paediatric care and research activities. The design brief for the competition was created in partnership with staff, patients and families and articulated their shared aspiration for a building to express the GOSH guiding principle: the Child First and Always.
The announcement follows the completion of a competitive dialogue process, involving three exceptional bids, including two other shortlisted teams: Carillion (with Eric Parry Architects acting as design architect and Conrad Gargett as healthcare architect) and Skanska (with Heatherwick Studio and HOK acting as design architect and HOK as healthcare architect).
Dr Peter Steer, Chief Executive of GOSH, said:
“We were delighted by the responses from all three of the shortlisted bid teams, and I’d like to congratulate each of them on their imaginative and thoughtful responses to a challenging brief. We are very grateful for the time and expertise they dedicated to their submissions, which were so admired at our public exhibitions and stimulated lively debates at each of our stakeholder engagement workshops. “After comprehensive analysis and debate the John Sisk & Son with BDP team led the field. Partly this was because of the quality of their concept design, which was really popular among the GOSH community when the design proposals were anonymously exhibited side by side. Just as important was the strength and depth within the team, who clearly demonstrated a deep understanding of the GOSH values, creativity, expert clinical planning and a robust commercial proposition. We look forward to partnering with them to develop proposals for this special building, the success of which is essential to the future of sustainable, outstanding specialised healthcare for children and young people at this historic location.”
The Sisk/BDP scheme was considered to offer a promising response to the challenge of placing a building of international significance within a terraced street setting. Public realm proposals link to internal wayfinding, creating a welcoming, active frontage and an architectural expression of the activities taking place within. The ‘four houses’ concept responds to the domestic scale of Great Ormond Street and the imaginative ‘lily pad’ winter gardens with embayment spaces between them will enhance the inpatient experience, offering views of nature from every bedroom window.
Internally, the design approach was praised for facilitating an innovative model of care and a high quality, healing environment with the potential to nurture patients and families while supporting GOSH staff in their important work.
The Trust is now entering into an early design agreement with John Sisk & Son Ltd so that design development work can continue and the scheme can be brought forward for planning permission.
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