2025 Architizer A+ People’s Choice Award: Boston Children’s Hospital Hale Family Building
The Boston Children’s Hospital Hale Family Building has won the People’s Choice Award in the Hospitals and Healthcare Centers category of the 2025 Architizer A+ Awards.
The project was awarded Finalist status in April 2025.
The People’s Choice category generated hundreds of thousands of votes cast this season from Architizer’s voting public across 10 countries.
Boston Children’s Hospital Hale Family Building in Boston. Photo by Robert Benson.
Pediatric hospitals care for a very vulnerable population: sick children and their families. As such, the design was developed to carefully integrate clinical needs in an inclusive, safe environment in which all are welcome. The design team engaged over four hundred users to address the multi-faceted needs of the hospital and its community through workshops and high-fidelity mock-ups.
Some of the decisions that promote inclusion are an accessible toilet and shower in every patient room, provision for meditative and respite space that caters to a variety of cultural backgrounds, and collocating family break rooms with indoor gardens to promote connection among families. The variety of green spaces within the hospital not only serves as respite zones for patients, family, staff, but also other visitors and employees of the broader Longwood Medical Community.
Uma Ramanathan, FAIA, LEED AP
Principal
Uma is a principal and leader in the firm’s pediatric healthcare practice. With more than 30 years of experience in healthcare, planning, and design, her grasp of the rigorous demands of medical staff has been invaluable to her clients.