ZGF visits Northern Saskatchewan for hospital project
ZGF Architects Seattle partner Allyn Stellmacher has been traveling to remote areas of Northern Saskatchewan to visit with schoolchildren and community members to hear what they want in the design of their new Children’s Hospital. Joined to Royal University Hospital, Children’s Hospital of Saskatchewan will be a maternal and children’s hospital. Currently in design, it is scheduled to open in late 2016. Saskatoon Health Region is the largest health region in Saskatchewan, serving approximately 300,000 local residents in more than 100 cities, towns, and villages. It is a provincial center providing specialized care to thousands of people from across the province.
Along with Children’s Hospital of Saskatchewan officials, Stellmacher and Terri Johnson, an interior design principal, are visiting communities only accessible by aircraft, or seasonal roads, including Stony Rapids, La Ronge, Ile a la Crosse and Meadow Lake. The team has met with kids in grades 2 – 9, to hear what they would want in the hospital, should they need to use it. ZGF said the children want to have family with them, and to have familiar sights around them.
Henry Downing Howlett is the prime architect for the project and ZGF Architects is the secondary architect.
The project manager is ZW Group. The mechanical engineers are Affiliated Engineers and Daniels Wingerak Engineering Ltd. and the structural engineers are Halcrow and Brownlee Beaton Kreke.
View a pictorial from the planning process in Northern Saskatchewan here.
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