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Still, at first glance, you’d be forgiven for not immediately recognising the building’s function as a state-of-the-art medical facility.This is a hospital which, according to Bookings Team Leader Adam Chivers, patients often comment, ‘looks like a five star hotel.’.
With its distinctive black glass, basket weave cladding, the hospital’s exterior panels seem to reflect the expansive movement of sky and clustered cloud formations from every angle.It’s an aesthetic which manifests Bryden Wood’s belief that a hospital occupies a special status of building in society, one with such a substantial level of importance and value that it deserves to be signified in the very appearance of the structure.The physicality of the Circle Reading building is both luminous and reflective, fundamentally optimistic feeling, but also discreet and secure.
‘We were able, with Circle Reading, to give the building an aesthetic which was beyond purely functional,’ says Wood..Beyond its striking glass exterior, lies the building’s central atrium - a sleek, communal space, three stories high and full of light, which houses a reception and cafe, accompanying tables, leather sofas and modern artwork.
It’s an area Orthopaedic Surgeon, Raj Goel jokingly, but admiringly, refers to as ‘the foyer.’ ‘Patients say, “Wow, what a great place to work in,”’ he says..
The other Circle staff members seem to agree, united in their appreciation for this particularly special aspect of the hospital.The different geos have different value propositions, just like clients, she says.
Their different paths and strategies reflect their individual needs “based on the current environments that are there and what they're trying to overcome.I think we can learn from one another,” she says.. For example, Singapore is very metrics-based.
They’re tracking everything with technology and bringing industry and universities together to view things from different perspectives.In the United Kingdom, there’s great craftsmanship, as well as in Ireland, where they’ve adopted manufacturing techniques.