Gates Vascular Institute

The Gates Vascular Institute and the University at Buffalo‘s Clinical and Translational Research Center is a 10 story building at 875 Ellicott St, Buffalo, New York. The Institute is next to Buffalo General Medical Center and opened on May 24, 2012.[1] The building was designed by Mehrdad Yazdani of CannonDesign and offers services for stroke care, cardiac surgery, and vascular services. Project costs were approximately $290,000,000.[2]

Gates Vascular Institute
General information
Status	Complete
Type	Medical
Architectural style	Postmodern architecture
Location	875 Ellicott Street, Buffalo, New York
Coordinates	42.901561°N 78.865970°W / 42.901561; -78.865970
Construction started	2009
Topped-out	2011
Completed	2012
Cost	$290 million USD
Management	Kaleida Health and University at Buffalo
Height
Roof	58 m (190 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	10
Floor area	476,000 sq ft (44,221.8 m^2)
Design and construction
Architect	Mehrdad Yazdani
Architecture firm	CannonDesign
Website
www.kaleidahealth.org/gvi

Building design

The first four floors of this 10-story 476,000 square feet vertical campus, house the Gates Vascular Institute, with the Clinical and Translational Research Center occupying the top half of the building. The facility’s structure and its engineering systems are based on the "Universal Grid," a minimally invasive approach to future modifications built into the building fabric intended to accommodate future changes. By adopting the Universal Grid approach, different spaces throughout the facility become capable of supporting a variety of functions.[1]

The Universal Grid consists of three 10’-6" building modules that create a 31’-6" X 31’-6" structural grid—in conjunction with an 18’ floor-to-floor height. The Universal Grid's open plan is easily adaptable to changing equipment and service offerings. This approach facilities the installation of new technologies and conversion of building zones, as future needs determine, to entirely different functions without the modification of core infrastructure systems (mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems).[3]

The combined buildings of the Gates Vascular Institute and Buffalo General Medical Center house a new emergency department, a new helipad, 610 beds, 28 operating rooms, 17 interventional labs, four CT scanners and four MRIs.[3]

Awards

The Gates Vascular Institute won the 2013 AIA Healthcare Design Award Recipient from the American Institute of Architects.[4] The jury stated the building "possesses unique design and planning concepts that demonstrate a great deal of innovation. It is really well integrated, highly thoughtful design. The forms are expressive of the collaboration that is to take place here. It clearly expresses an idea. This project begins to push the boundaries of hospital programming and the isolation of function based spaces. By appropriating some lessons from an activity based workplace the team creates overlapping and shared spaces to challenge conventional hierarchies in health center planning."[4]

See also

• Architecture of Buffalo, New York
• Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus
• Kaleida Health
• CannonDesign
• List of tallest buildings in Buffalo

References

1. "Kaleida's Gates Vascular Institute and UB's Clinical Translational Research Center Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting". Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
2. "Kaleida Health Gates Vascular Institute / Cannon Design". ArchDaily. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
3. "Gates Vascular Institute Opens on Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus". University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
4. "Kaleida Health, Gates Vascular Institute and UB Clinical Translational Research Center". American Institute of Architects. Retrieved 31 August 2015.

External links

• Media related to Gates Vascular Institute at Wikimedia Commons
• Skyscraperpage building page
• Emporis building page