Cardiovascular Center for Excellence
OR Surgical Department
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
New York, NY
daSILVA Architects, In association with Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects, designed a new cardiac care building for NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. The 125,000 SF five-story structure links two buildings, Milstein Hospital and Irving Pavilion, and creates a new entrance that improves public access and way finding. An additional 40,000 SF was renovated to connect the three buildings. Our challenge was to effectively and sensitively add to a successful existing institution on a constrained site while celebrating the underlying humanistic purpose of the enterprise.
The new building includes a conference center, outpatient diagnostic and imaging suites, and multi-story atrium with four sky-bridge levels connecting the new building to the existing building to maintain a continuous campus. It houses a new outpatient imaging department, expanded invasive cardiology and outpatient surgery units, group practice units, dialysis and an ICU. A passive solar double skinned climate wall faces south, maximizing solar energy and scenic views of the Hudson River The design fuses the hospital’s progressive vision with its long-established reputation of excellence; it will shape the public’s impression of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital for years to come.