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Texas Children's Today
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 Pedestrian sky-bridges allow convenient,
climate-controlled access between Texas Children's
buildings.
After
Texas Children’s latest expansion, the approximate total
corridor length, including the West Tower, Abercrombie, the
S-Lot Building and Feigin Center, slightly exceeds 11 miles.
The 16-story Clinical Care
Center houses most of the hospital's outpatient clinics.
It has 819,280 square feet and cost $175 million
to construct.
The
Clinical Care Center also houses a food court on the third
floor.
Texas Children's West
Tower, the hospital's inpatient facility, has been part of
the hospital since 1991. Its expansion cost
a total of $127 million and added 15 stories. The West Tower is now 20 stories high and totals
1.02 million square feet.
The 16th floor of the West
Tower is designated as a family services floor. It features
pre-teen and teen activity rooms with a stage and big screen
theater, a patient and family library, a vending area, Houston
Independent School District classrooms, hair salon,
laundry facilities and private phone booths, as well as
Radio Lollipop, the in-house radio station.
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FKP Architects awarded top honors for West
Tower design
FKP Architects was awarded first place
for a commercial design at the 17th Annual American Society of
Interior Designers (ASID)/Houston Chronicle Interior Design Awards for
their innovative design of the Texas Children's Hospital West Tower floors.
This honor was given in recognition of
their design incorporating curves, strong colors, and special
designated areas, such as "front porches" outside patient rooms and
family lounges, giving patient rooms a more comfortable
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