The new David C. Pratt Cancer Center is designed specifically for cancer patients and their families, offering a comfortable, healing environment. The center provides fully integrated diagnosis and treatment in a convenient major metropolitan hospital campus setting. Devoting this building to cancer patients reflects the hospital’s commitment to healthy outcomes through state-of-the-art diagnosis and treatment. Patients report that several features of the building make a positive difference in their treatment experience.
The first level of the three-story building houses patient registration, cancer information, radiation therapy, diagnostic imaging and an education conference center. The second and third floors house oncology physician practices, and a pediatric oncology unit. Family lounges on these floors overlook the front-entry garden plaza, and include more private, secluded areas.
Size: 140,000 sf
Status: completed 2003
A welcoming landscaped entrance court with a fountain greets patients and visitors and provides instant orientation to the building’s interior.
The north facade faces a major interstate.
The dramatic three-story atrium lobby is a light-filled, relaxing and elegant space.
Warm woods interplay with subtle fabric and carpet patterns to create calm and comfortable clinical and public spaces.
Infusion patients on the second floor benefit from the curved exterior wall, with views to wooded residential areas and across the interstate.
The warm interiors finishes extend even into the clinical areas, like this linear accelerator room.
Christner transformed a small space in the Cancer Center into a safe, active and engaging retreat for young patients that is a complete departure from the conventional treatment setting.
