Sacred Places
Lenox Hill Hospital
A rooftop terrace overlooked by eight floors of patient rooms.
WHERE
New York, NY
SETTING
Healthcare
PARTNER INSTITUTION
Lenox Hill Hospital
Visit
Where it is
Lenox Hill Hospital, East 77th Street, New York, NY
What happens here
HOW IT CAME TO BE
Eight floors of windows look down on it.
01
The Need
Lenox Hill is a 450-bed acute care facility on Manhattan's Upper East Side, receiving patients from across New York City and beyond, committed to the highest standard of care for a socioeconomically and ethnically diverse patient population. It has an indoor meditation room but no outdoor extension of it.
02
The Vision
The proposed Sacred Place would sit on the fourth-floor rooftop terrace, just off the elevators and adjacent to the meditation room. Beyond providing solace to patients, families, and staff, the design reasons that the benefit reaches further than the people standing in it: eight floors of patient rooms overlook the rooftop, so the garden would work through the windows as well as underfoot.
03
The Transformation
Come back soon. [Placeholder per 19 Aug call.]
