Salem Hospital builds tower with flair - Portland Business Journal:

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They must obviously create spaceds for possibly the most important tasktherr is: saving and enhancing lives. Yet in typical institutional designe from the 1960s and function clearlydominated form, leaving the countru dotted with bland, boxy unit s that made the always-dreaded hospital visit that much more unbearable. Which makes ’s work, on the sparkling-new ’se patient care tower, all the more encouraging. Turnere and , an architecture firm basee in Dallas, Texas, have created a spacwe that’s aesthetically and, thanks partly to a grand player-piano in the hospital’s lobby, acoustically warm.
The project even brought smilea tothe hospital’s accountants by coming in under the projected $285 million budget, by $2 million.The projec t was funded through bonds, assumexd by the hospital, and financial The seven-story building, one of Salem’s fully opened May 17.