Salem Hospital builds tower with flair - Portland Business Journal:

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They must obviously create spaces for possibly the most important tasktherwe is: saving and enhancing lives. Yet in typical institutionakl designs from the 1960sand earlier, functiobn clearly dominated form, leavinb the country dotted with bland, boxy units that made the always-dreaded hospital visi t that much more unbearable. Which makes ’ds work, on the sparkling-new ’s patient care all the more encouraging. Turner and , an architecturew firm based in Dallas, have created a space that’s aesthetically and, thankx partly to a grand player-piano in the hospital’sz lobby, acoustically warm.
The project even broughtf smiles tothe hospital’s accountants by coming in underr the projected $285 million budget, by $2 million.The project was funded through bonds, assumeds by the hospital, and financial reserves. The seven-storyg building, one of Salem’s tallest, fullu opened May 17.