🎉 Congratulations to LDA Design on winning the 🏆 Healthy Placemaking for Community Impact Award at the inaugural Healthy City Design Awards for their work on London’s first ‘Healthy Hospital Street’ at Great Ormond Street Hospital. 🏥🌍 We are proud to have played a role in this project, which is crucial for the many seriously ill children and their carers who arrive at the hospital daily, helping to address the challenges posed by busy traffic in the area. 🚗 Our role involved reviewing existing design constraints, carefully considering utility and construction conflicts. Based on this analysis, we proposed alternative construction details that prioritise sustainability 🌱 while ensuring a strong visual impact. 🎨 To support the project’s aim of incorporating SuDS infrastructure, we conducted a feasibility review to assess suitable locations and identify potential installation barriers, resulting in a high-level drainage design strategy. 🌧️🔍 👏 Well done to everyone involved on this well-deserved recognition! LDA Design and Norman Rourke Pryme | Certified B Corp™️ #HealthyCityDesign #SustainableDesign #CommunityImpact #UrbanDevelopment
Up to 750 seriously ill children and their carers arrive at Great Ormond Street Hospital every day. And so, like the streets outside most London hospitals, Great Ormond Street is busy with traffic. We’ve been working with the #hospital on plans that could reclaim road space to create a playable, #biophilic landscape with a series of garden rooms. This change would dramatically improve local air quality. Doorstep play would also make a big difference to the children’s experience of being treated at the hospital, and there would be respite too for carers and staff. The plans balance #placemaking with the necessary hospital logistics and the hope is that by creating London’s first ‘Healthy Hospital Street’, other hospitals across the city might follow. So, it’s wonderful to see this ambition recognised at the inaugural Healthy City Design awards, with a win for #community impact. Great Ormond Street’s Magali Thomson and LDA Design’s Scott Carroll were there to pick up the award. Well done, everyone. Great to see this work recognised. Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust Mayor of London NHS NHS England Norman Rourke Pryme | Certified B Corp™️ Full list of winners here: https://lnkd.in/eHdsEMKi #HealthyCityDesign #HCD2024 #HealthyCityDesignAwards #Community #HealthyCommunities #CommunityImpact #HealthyHospitalStreets #RewildingtheNHS #NHS #GreatOrmondStreet #landscapearchitecture #landscapedesign #bettercity #London #healthycity