What does “care” mean to you as a designer?

Care is not one moment, it is a thousand little moments. And you slice it and slice it so that it touches everything you do. It’s all the small things: What does it feel like as you drive up to the hospital? You have cancer, and your energy level is so low that to walk from where the car leaves you to the door is a massive undertaking. The driveway used to be like a ski hill, so we made it just a little gentler. As you enter the hospital, it’s a smoother, more comfortable transition inside, and you see right over the reception area and through the space. It becomes demystified.

We organized the space on this idea of “green to green,” creating a passage and a clear view through the ground floor, so you see a glimpse of the outdoors from either entrance. And that way you know this space — and this thing you’re going through — doesn’t last forever. You can see outside and realize that at some point “this thing ends.”

And look at it from another perspective: Imagine you’re dropping off a