UT’s M.D. Anderson Cancer Center plans to build this 8-ish story pavilion, called The Pavilion, in front of the Alkek hospital at the corner of Bertner and Bates streets in the Med Center — replacing the pavilion-like rotunda that stands there now. The new building will house the center’s interventional radiology department (on its third floor) as well as 11 new operating rooms. The 185,000-sq.-ft. structure, designed by Dallas’s HKS, includes 2 partial-height floors for maintenance above the operating rooms plus a mechanical floor at the top. Construction is expected to cost $102 million, and be complete by the end of 2015. An accompanying $96 million renovation of the adjacent Alkek hospital will extend into 2019.
- M.D. Anderson embarks on $198M construction project in Texas Medical Center [Houston Business Journal]
Rendering: HKS, via M.D. Anderson
It’s so nice that MD Anderson continues to prosper while the rest of biomedicine in Houston continues to starve. And it’s so nice that they have many friends in high places (e.g. CIPRIT).