New unit designed from the heart
24 May 2001
A new multi-million pound facility at one of the country's leading heart centres has just been opened.
Designed by architects Nightingale Associates, the 46-bed Cardiac Building at Cambridgeshire's Papworth Hospital was visited by the government's heart tsar Dr Roger Boyle on April 26.
Dr Boyle, National Director for Heart Disease, toured the new two-storey building, which cost £1.5m to construct and took just under two years to complete. He also visited the new £0.5m Catheter Laboratory, used in the diagnosis of heart disease and also designed by Nightingale Associates.
The architectural design has turned the hospital site's picturesque setting to therapeutic advantage by orientating the new facilities so that wards look out on to an 18th century former mansion set in landscaped gardens with a lake.
The practice has already completed a number of projects at Papworth Hospital, including a Transplant Continuing Care Unit and Pathology Laboratory. A new £3m Intensive Care Unit and Day Ward building are currently under construction.
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