Right royal visits
20 February 2000
Two of architect Nightingale Associates' recently completed hospital buildings have received Royal Seals of Approval.
Her Majesty The Queen formally opened Homerton Hospital 's new acute services on October 24 2000. Her Majesty toured the £20m development, which marks the culmination of a long and complex four-year planning process on the East London site. The new building, with its eye-catching two-storey entrance and double height inner space with glazed walkway has attracted critical praise and demonstrates that innovatory, stylish and patient-focused schemes are possible within tight constraints and limited budget. Schemes such as Homerton are beginning to change the face of traditional hospital design.
The Queen visited outpatient and paediatric departments as well as the new multi-space centre, designed by Nightingale Associates' London office.
A £27.5m new build Millennium Wing at the Royal Sussex County Hospital was opened by HRH The Princess Royal on November 17. Princess Ann unveiled a plaque in the new eight-storey clinical block (two levels are underground). Departments toured by Her Royal Highness include the first cardiac surgery unit in the South East outside London and an expanded accident and emergency department, which is one of the largest centres outside London.
With the completion of the new wing, acute medical and surgical services are now grouped together on one site in the first phase of Brighton Health Care NHS Trust's 'hospital for the 21st century'. Nightingale Associates were lead consultants on the project.
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