Duke Integrative Medicine Receives AIA Award

04.06.10

 

The Duke Integrative Medicine facility, located on the Duke campus in Durham, North Carolina, is the recipient of the 2010 American Institute of Architects (AIA) National Design Award for Healthcare. The award will be accepted by Duda/Paine Architects, LLC.

Based in Washington, DC, AIA is the leading professional membership association for licensed architects, emerging professionals, and allied partners. Their Design Awards showcase the best of health care building design and health care design-oriented research.  Winning projects exhibit conceptual strength that solve aesthetic, civic, urban, and social concerns, and address functional and sustainability issues.

“We are extremely pleased. This is the first time a building on the Duke campus has won a national architectural award,” said Tracy Gaudet, MD, Executive Director of Duke Integrative Medicine. The groundbreaking 27,000 square foot facility sits at the heart of the Duke University Health Care System and its mission. Detailed information and photos of the building can be found at www.dukeintegrativemedicine.org/index.php/2009011915/about-us/our-facilities.html.

Duke Integrative Medicine is also the first medical facility in the state of North Carolina to receive LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification for its environmental stewardship.

A state of the art healing environment, Duke Integrative Medicine is committed to transforming the way health care is delivered in the 21^st century. For more information about Duke Integrative Medicine please see www.dukeintegrativemedicine.org/.