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Article: Renaissance Project at Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, Vt. citation/built.(Special Feature: 22nd Annual Design Awards)
- Article from:
- Modern Healthcare
- Article date:
- September 24, 2007
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Judges praised the site plan of this project that links the University of Vermont College of Medicine and the new 550,000-square-foot Fletcher Allen Health Care ambulatory-care center with a new 70,000-square-foot medical education center and underground library.
While one judge says "it seems a little extravagant for Vermont,'' another comments that the project is low-key and "doesn't shout at you.''
"This is really phase one of an orderly replacement process,'' says Rick Kobus, senior principal with Cambridge, Mass.-based Tsoi, Kobus & Associates, adding that the campus basically had consisted of buildings "strung together in chronological order'' ...