8.16.13 | Chicago, IL | The International Interior Design Association (IIDA) proudly announces the winners of its 2013 Healthcare Interior Design Competition. The competition honors and celebrates outstanding originality and excellence in the design and furnishings of healthcare interior spaces. This year, a jury of distinguished design professionals awarded Best of Competition honors to RTKL, San Francisco, Calif., for its project, Baylor Medical Center at McKinney, Dallas, Texas. RTKL’s project also earned the Best in Category prize for Hospitals.

“Healthcare Interior Design is one of the most crucial design specialty fields, so we are especially pleased to have seen such a commitment to robust healthcare design in this year’s entries,” IIDA Executive Vice President and CEO Cheryl S. Durst, Hon. FIIDA, LEED AP, said. “The heightened sense of purpose and the vigor in this year’s submissions are evidence of the healing instinct that is so vital in the field of healthcare design.”

IIDA President Felice Silverman, IIDA (President and Principal, Silverman Trykowski Associates), one of the judges for the competition, concurred. “The winning entries represent the best of healthcare design in a variety of solutions,” she said. “Whether a pediatric hospital, an urban medical office building, a hospice, a senior living facility or a hospital, each project carefully considers the patient population it is designed for. They demonstrate that there is no ‘one size fits all’ in great healthcare design.”

For the judges, RTKL’s Baylor Medical Center at McKinney struck a balance with numerous elements — from natural light and materials to a warm, contemporary palette and exterior green space — to create a successful healing environment. “The eclectic mix of color and pattern creates a simultaneously intimate and grand space at the same time without overwhelming the patient,” judge Kimberly L. Overton, LEED AP (Associate, Director of Interior Design, Leo A Daly), said. “Natural light and materials are controlled in a beautiful uplifting way. In particular the attention to the foot wall in the patient room makes the patient feel special and safe.”

Judge Carol Doering, IIDA, CID, LEED AP (Director of Healthcare Services, IA Interior Architects), agreed, adding, “The designers for this project took a new look at the palette and sought to revisit the scheme with a project that was unique.”

Category winners for the 2013 Healthcare Interior Design Competition are as follows:

AMBULATORY CARE CENTERS

Best in Category
Project Name: Columbia Doctors Midtown, New York, NY
Firm: Perkins+Will, New York, NY

Honorable Mention
Project Name: The Everett Clinic – Smokey Point Medical Center, Marysville, Wash.
Firm: ZGF Architects, Seattle, Wash.

Honorable Mention
Project Name: Multiple Sclerosis Center at Swedish Neuroscience Institute, Seattle, Wash.
Firm: Callison, Seattle, Wash.

HOSPICE CARE

Honorable Mention
Project Name: Hospice, Marienhospital Foundation, Euskirchen, Germany
Firm: 100% interior, Cologne, Germany

HOSPITALS

Best in Category
Project Name: Baylor Medical Center at McKinney, Dallas, Texas
Firm: RTKL, San Francisco, Calif.

Honorable Mention
Project Name: Benjamin Russell Hospital for Children, Birmingham, Texas
Firm: HKS Inc., Dallas, Texas

Honorable Mention
Project Name: Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, Singapore
Firm: HOK, San Francisco, Calif.

SENIOR LIVING & RESIDENTIAL HEALTH, CARE AND SUPPORT FACILITIES

Best in Category
Project Name: Saint John’s on the Lake, Milwaukee, Wis.
Firm: Perkins Eastman, Chicago, Ill.

Winning projects will be published in the October issue of Healthcare Design magazine, and featured on the IIDA website.

About International Interior Design Association

The International Interior Design Association (IIDA) is a professional networking and educational association with more than 13,000 Members practicing worldwide in more than 50 countries. IIDA is committed to enhancing the quality of life through excellence in Interior Design and advancing Interior Design through knowledge, value and community. IIDA advocates for Interior Design excellence; nurtures a global Interior Design community; maintains high educational standards; and supports its Members and the Profession with visionary leadership. IIDA has helped reveal new Design talent through a variety of trade show involvement and Interior Design/Architecture competitions honoring national and international talent, including the Interior Design Competition, Global Excellence Awards and Hospitality Product Design Competition. www.iida.org