Scheme designed by Canadian firm IBI
Healthcare specialist IBI Group has been given the green light for an eight-storey orthopaedic centre at Guy鈥檚 Hospital in Southwark.
The Canada-based architecture and engineering firm鈥檚 鈥極rthopaedic Centre of Excellence鈥� for Guy鈥檚 and St Thomas鈥� NHS Trust will house eight operating theatre suites, support accommodation and facilities for education and research.
The building, which will have an internal floor area of around 6,500sq m, will occupy a tightly constrained site on the narrow Great Maze Pond in the shadow of both the Shard and the Trust鈥檚 34-storey Guy鈥檚 tower.
The scheme will require the partial removal of Heatherwick鈥檚 2007 鈥楤oiler Suit鈥� facade encasing the boiler house which powers the hospital. A Sainsbury鈥檚 shop on the site will also be demolished to make way for the new building.
IBI Group was also appointed to work on the redevelopment of Hillingdon hospital last year.
The practice is providing design and healthcare planning services for a full business case for the west London scheme, which is one of 40 hospitals to be included in the government鈥檚 health infrastructure plan.
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