Banner Estrella Medical Center, Phoenix; Award of Excellence/built.(Banner Health System, DPR Construction Inc.)(Brief Article)

Modern Healthcare, September, 2005

Type of facility: Hospital

Client: Banner Health

Project architects: NBBJ, Seattle

Construction Manager: DPR Construction, Phoenix

Completed: January 2005

Size: 451,896 gross square feet

Cost: $91.5 million

Cost per square foot: $201

When most people envision the desert, they think of scorching temperatures, dryness and general discomfort. Banner Estrella Medical Center in Phoenix, however, incorporates some of the desert's most striking elements into a hospital that blends technology, comfort and the surrounding environment. "It's an elegantly conceived project,'' says judge Peter Ellis about the 167-bed hospital, which uses the sun to create simple reflections of time and space through...

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