New Stanford Hospital

This coming November 17, the Rafael Viñoly Architects-designed new Stanford Hospital will receive its first patients. More than a decade in visionary planning and design, in collaboration with Stanford Health Care, the ideas behind the architecture are an amalgam of advanced medical theory and compassionate humanism: Rafael Viñoly Architects has created a building for state of the art healthcare that address the needs of doctors, patients, visitors, and institution, as key stakeholders.

Functionally flexible and ready to grow from day one, the new Stanford Hospital is a future-oriented structure. Stanford Health Care perceived the essential economy of Rafael Viñoly Architects’ innovative universal module design, which supports both internal evolution of current need and an incremental expansion strategy of the building itself.

A Level 1 Trauma Center, the Hospital has 368 private patient bedrooms, 20 operating rooms, eight interventional radiology / image-guided rooms, three MRI scanners, four CT scanners, and one interventional MRI scanner. Seismically isolated and highly resilient, the building would remain operational for 96 hours after a major natural disaster.

From its inception, the design has also embraced timeless spiritual aspects of healing. With natural light and expansive views throughout, it features the integral integration of art and uplifting atmosphere, with five distinct and seamlessly incorporated gardens, walking trails and outdoor spaces, and a meditation room.

The new Stanford Hospital now becomes a medical beacon — for the region and for the rapidly evolving practice of hospital design.

Rafael Viñoly Architects