IBI to demolish part of Heatherwick project at Guy’s Hospital

Healthcare specialist IBI Group has been given the green light for an eight-storey orthopaedic centre at Guy’s Hospital in Southwark.

The Canada-based architecture and engineering firm was named fifth biggest practice in the world byBuilding Design’s WA100 2021.

Its Orthopaedic Centre of Excellence for Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust will house eight operating theatre suites, support accommodation and facilities for education and research.

The building, which will have an internal floor area of around 6,500sq m, will occupy a tightly constrained site on the narrow Great Maze Pond in the shadow of both the Shard and the trust’s 34-storey Guy’s tower which was reclad by Penoyre & Prasad.

The scheme will require the partial removal of Heatherwick’s 2007 ‘Boiler Suit’ facade encasing the boiler house which powers the hospital. A branch of Sainsbury’s on the site will also be demolished to make way for the new building.

IBI Group was also appointed to work on the redevelopment of Hillingdon hospital last year.

该实践为西伦敦计划的完整商业案例提供设计和医疗规划服务，该计划是政府医疗基础设施计划中包括的40家医院之一。