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Award-winning diabetes facility’s striking ‘curved lines’


The striking design of a new diabetes treatment facility at Hull Royal Infirmary has won its architects, Beverley-based Alessandro Caruso Architects (ACA), two international awards. Built by Zenith Development Group, and opened in January, the £8 m Allam Diabetes Centre was designed for Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, and principally funded by Egyptian philanthropist, Ehab Allam. It won ACA the Architect of the Year Award at The Architectural Community Awards 2021, and the Bronze Novum Award in the Architectural Design category, as well as the Architectural Practice of the Year Award at the UK’s National Building Awards 2021.


Setting the brief to create a positive


architectural statement at Hull Royal Infirmary on the Anlaby Road, Ehab Allam wanted to improve the local street scene and attract high-calibre research staff and funding streams to the region. The circular building’s organic plan was inspired by the anatomy of the major organs affected by diabetes, reflected in its curved lines, with its porcelain cladding ‘a symbol of protection for such organs’. Dr Allam admired ACA founder Alex Caruso’s passion as architect, while his design reflected the initial brief for new ‘landmark twin buildings’ at the main entrances of two East Yorkshire hospitals


Mobile laminar flow theatre for Shetland hospital


A partnership between one of the UK’s leading medical infrastructure providers and NHS Shetland will help hundreds of patients receive essential procedures delayed by the pandemic – including some never previously performed on the island. A mobile laminar flow operating


– one for the Diabetes Centre in Hull, and another for the Endoscopy Clinic at the Castle Hill Hospital in Cottingham. The Allam Diabetes Centre’s ground floor incorporates a large waiting area and reception, office space, consulting rooms, and specialist treatment rooms with associated ancillary facilities; the first floor, individual and open plan offices and training rooms, and the second, research consulting rooms, offices, store areas, and a roof void. There is also a roof garden with a planted area. ACA said: “It’s unusual for buildings to


have curves, as building in straight lines is far easier. However, taking the general geometry of the organs, our curved design creates a salutogenic effect, with an entrance designed to embrace and welcome people in.”


Architects confirmed for ‘landmark’ Leeds hospitals


Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has confirmed Perkins&Will, led by Penoyre & Prasad with Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, as designers of the two new hospitals on the Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) site.


The 94,000 m2 building will house


two ‘unique’ hospitals – one for adults and one for children – including a centralised maternity and neonatal unit. The Trust said: “Significantly, these designs bring together for the first time clinical services for children and young people under one roof.” Of the architects selected, it added: “This world-class team has designed and delivered some of the world’s most innovative hospitals and women’s and children’s care environments. Their appointment follows a competition in 2021 to find an architect to design our ‘Hospitals of the Future’ project – one of the 40 new hospitals the UK government has committed to


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build by 2030 as part of its New Hospital Programme.”


The design team is now undertaking staff and patient engagement sessions to gather input and inform the next stage of design development. Work continues to clear the LGI site where the new hospitals will be situated, following the demolition of the Trust’s Old Nurses’ Home, the Hearing and Balance Unit, King Edward Building, Children’s Paediatric Offices, and Wellcome Wing. Construction is scheduled to start on site in 2024, with the new facilities planned to be fully operational in 2027.


theatre from Vanguard Healthcare Solutions has been installed at Gilbert Bain Hospital in Lerwick. Over the next 12 weeks, the hospital estimates that as many as 400 patients from across Shetland and Orkney will benefit from the cataract and ear, nose, and throat procedures undertaken on the unit. Additionally, for the first time ever, joint replacements will be performed in Shetland.


The mobile theatre, designed and built by Vanguard, features an anaesthetic room, operating theatre, two-bed first-stage recovery area, staff changing room, and utility areas. The laminar flow specification offers HEPA- filtered environmental air, conforming to Grade A EUGMP, with up to 600 air changes per hour passing over the patient, necessary for orthopaedic work. It is seamlessly connected to the main hospital building by a specially- constructed corridor. The project was funded by the Scottish government, with the mobile theatre provided in recognition that Northern Isles patients had been unable to travel for procedures during lockdown, resulting in a backlog of operations. NHS Shetland acting Chief Nurse, Amanda McDermott, said the delays had harmed people’s quality of life, adding: “Without the mobile theatre, people could have been left waiting years more for the procedures.” Director of Nursing and Acute Services, Kathleen Carolan, the project lead for the mobile theatre, added: “Six months of work has gone into preparing for the facility’s arrival, and the project has involved a range of teams throughout NHS Shetland and partner organisations.”


Photo courtesy of Andrew Crozier


Photo courtesy of Perkins&Will


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