Friday, July 1, 2016

Improving Suburbia Portfolio 8 Stony Brook University Hospital

Mart And Hospital Pavilion with Children's Hospital
Medical and Research Translation (Mart) at
Stony Brook University Hospital


While visiting dad at the hospital I had a chance to take in some of the architecture at Stony Brook University Hospital. Stony Brook has finally gotten its architectural legs back it seems. If you are familiar with the "old" hospital, visually that is, you may not have been too impressed; E.G. The "Dice Building" 1970's claptrap (Nonsensical) architecture at its worst:


Those horrid concrete panels kept falling off-even now they are in bad shape.
The new architecture is a vast improvement to this hospital. Here are some random pics I took of the Mart and Hospital pavilion under construction: