New Stobhill Hospital Ambulatory Care and Diagnostic Centre

The Stobhill project is integrated from the inside out, through the device of the central circulation arcade. The design combines two main blocks: a massive, deep-plan, four-storey treatment block at the north and a long, three-storey linear block of clinics to the south, the two are linked by a full-height, top-lit concourse.

The two external faces of the building clearly reflect their purpose. The more public north face of the clinic slab and the whole of the treatment block, which overlook the core of the new hospital, feature a combination of low-cost materials and elements that project a considerable Bauhaus-like elegance: off-white render, horizontal window-banding and subtle, three-tone grey cladding panels. The north-west and north-east corners of the clinic, overlooking the concourse entrances, are formed by partly-glazed, partly brick-clad stair-towers.

The rear faces of the clinic block, to south, west and east are treated in a utilitarian manner, rendered and dotted with small windows and cropped harshly at the top; a dark brick ground floor links this otherwise stark rear section to the two front stair towers.