Shriners Hospital For Children - Canada

Montreal, Canada

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Shriners Hospital For Children - Canada

Montreal, Canada

Firm

Ibghy Architects Inc.

Type

Government + Health › Hospital

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2015

SIZE

100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft

BUDGET

$100M +

The Shriners Hospital For Children is a university teaching institution, affiliated with McGill University's Faculty of Medicine, offering ultra specialized paediatric orthopaedic care to children from all over Canada.
The project to build a new Shriners Hospital For Children in Montreal arose out of the need to replace the existing facility, built in 1927, which became too cramped and out-dated to effectively respond to the mission of the institution. The result was the development of a construction program to relocate a much larger Shriners Hospital For Children onto the site of the new McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) Campus, attaching itself to the new Montreal Children’s Hospital.
While the Shriners Hospital For Children is to remain a distinct and independent facility on the southwest section of the MUHC Campus, with a distinct architectural expression and identity, the development program calls for the sharing of parking facilities and a central loading dock with the MUHC, and internal communication between the facilities on two floor levels.
The project emerged as an eight storey facility totalling 220 000 square feet, with a budget of
127 000 000 $.
The clinical services include 18 private patient rooms, 4 critical care beds, 4 operating rooms, extensive outpatient care clinics, a physical rehabilitation centre and an imaging department. A full floor of the facility is dedicated to a fundamental research laboratory floor; with access to an animal care facility located on the basement level.
The Montreal location is the only Canadian site in the Shriners network of 22 hospitals. As such, one of the project’s underlying design objectives became the expression of the Hospital’s unique quality as Canada’s only Shriners Hospital. To that end, each floor of the eight-storey building conveys the images, textures, colour palette and mythology associated with a geographic region of Canada.
The result is a rich tapestry of a quintessential Canadian Hospital.