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 Consumer-focused Hospital Planned for Cincinnati Suburb
The new 370,000-square-foot West Chester Medical Center in West Chester,
Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, brings to its design a two-story rotunda
for increased wayfinding that leads to medical services clustered in
a retail-style arc. The design, by Dallas-based RTKL Associates Inc.
for Cincinnati-based Health Alliance, focuses on convenience for both
patients and staff. The $207-million project will be developed in three
phases: a five-story, 160-private-bed hospital; a four-floor medical
office building; and finally an additional 144-bed tower, medical office
building, and 1200-car parking garage. Ground was broken in July and
completion of phases one and two is scheduled for the end of 2008. 
 Golden State Honors 17 Outstanding Projects
AIACC bestows ’06 Design Awards
From a pool of nearly 330 entrants, the AIA California Council 2006
Design Awards jury selected 17 entries for recognition: five Honor
Awards and 12 Merit Awards. Open to architects licensed in California,
the project locations range from Pasadena to Pittsburgh to London.
The jury for the 2006 Design Awards was composed of Robert Campbell,
FAIA; Laura Hartman, AIA; George Nikolajevich, FAIA; Susan Rodriguez,
FAIA; and Michael Ross, FAIA. Founded in 1944, the AIACC is the
largest component of the AIA.
 Suman Sorg Designs State-of-the-Art Biosolids Treatment Facility
Sorg and Associates, Washington D.C., has designed a new $311 million
biosolids treatment process facility at the Blue Plains Advanced
Wastewater Treatment Plant in the Southwest quadrant of the nation’s
capital—the largest treatment facility of its kind in the
world. Suman Sorg’s design of eight giant egg-shaped digester
tanks transforms the landscape into a futuristic plane of animate
forms, on eight acres on the shores of the Anacostia River. The
facility, a major public initiative of the District of Columbia
Water and Sewer Authority, serves more than 2 million customers
daily and will process about 350 tons of sludge each day.
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