Buildings Magazine ‘Project Innovations’ awards celebrate operational excellence in buildings.
The New York Blood Center was awarded the Grand Prize in the Modernization category. The project, a conversion of a 75,000 square foot warehouse in Queens, New York into a blood processing facility, involved a complex program for a vast array of functions that were previously scattered over a number of locations.
Our design promotes innovation and interaction by organizing functions around a sunlit central core with blood processing on one side and labs on the other. Researchers and technicians share open work stations within the spine, creating opportunities for collaboration and interaction. The use of skylights, high sloped ceilings and continuous clerestories bring daylight deep into all occupied areas of the facility.
