An Taoiseach Brian Cowen has announced the selection of Dublin-based Murray O’Laoire/Brian O’Connell Associates and the London studio of international firm NBBJ Architects to design the new Children’s Hospital of Ireland in Dublin and Ambulatory & Urgent Care Centre at Tallaght.
The three practices will collaborate on the design of these “landmark healthcare facilities” part of a new HSE initiative for “the cohesive delivery of healthcare for children in Ireland”. Minister for Health and Children, Mary Harney, said: “There is no more important building in the health arena than this project.” Offering “world-class healthcare”, education and research, The Children’s Hospital of Ireland (an impression of the proposed Therapy Park – a sky garden central to diagnostic/treatment and patient areas, is shown here) will amalgamate three existing children’s hospitals’ services, with the scheme comprising a 400-bed, 100,000 m2 main hospital in the centre of Dublin, and a 10,000 m2 ambulatory and urgent care centre in the south-west suburb of Tallaght. The architectural team will also design an adjacent maternity hospital, and an additional maternity hospital and ambulatory care/urgent care centre, at Tallaght to serve patients to the southwest of Dublin.
