建筑师大卫·罗斯(David Ross)搬进了自己的花园，试图改善手机信号。一个月前宣布封锁，但这只是他在家工作的第二天，还有所有的挫折。

For the three weeks before our first crackly conversation he had spent every waking hour at Glasgow’s SEC Centre, part of the hastily assembled team that converted it into the NHS Louisa Jordan, Scotland’s answer to England’s Nightingale hospitals. It opened two days before we speak and he is still buzzing as he describes how they pulled it off – and what he hopes that means for procurement reform.

His practice, Keppie, is one of Scotland’s most venerable. Founded in 1854, it counts Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the visionary behind some of Scotland’s most famous buildings, among its former principals. The firm now works around the world, with hospitals in China and the Middle East under its belt.

It also has the unusual distinction of being the architect of Scotland’s first NHS hospital and now its newest, both created with the existential threat of their day in mind. The Cold War’s defensively low-slung Vale of Leven Hospital was designed in 1952 to survive the horizontal blast of an atomic bomb being dropped on the Clyde’s submarine bases.

随着2020年疫情的恶化和第一批南丁格尔的消息传出，罗斯的同事科林·卡丽(Colin Carrie)联系了苏格兰国民健康服务体系(NHS Scotland)，为凯皮提供帮助，作为一名拥有数十年医院设计经验的建筑师，凯皮已经在适当的健康框架上。Carrie也承认他想过，“如果除了Keppie和我以外的其他建筑师参与进来，我会很生气的。”

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