boston children’s hospital

A large but compact hospital on a small site adjacent to the Big Dig bolsters the process of healing the gash in the urban landscape by the introduction of the now-buried I-93. The hospital, with its low, corten-steel-wrapped plinth, responds to the scale and texture of the North End, while the patient care towers and their white ceramic sun louvers fade into the sky above. Each tower is oriented to help children and their families regain a sense of context and groundedness within the city as they move through the hospital. At the ends of the east-west corridor, visitors can glimpse the Zakim Bridge and South Boston; in the north-south tower, one sees the Old North Church and the Customs House Tower across the park, visually stitching the the city back together.