Well clearly the architect is retarded, they could easily mitigate that, and there's nothing you can do about the sound issue, but I'm sure other senior hospitals in other major cities have figured out ways by not creating a giant gaping hole in the project in the middle of an urban block. Not only is this a retarded architect, they clearly didn't do any research or site analysis.
"The city's land-use staff said hospital officials had refused to budge on a design that violates guidelines governing new construction and major renovations on Kennedy, a major corridor linking downtown and the West Shore business district.
The guidelines encourage wide sidewalks, decorative streetlights and pavers, and attractive buildings that front the boulevard. Parking should be provided along the side or rear of buildings."
And good for our council members, if anyone's going to be at fault for the death of this project its the TGH people for not conforming to guidelines.
"A central feature is a 2.5-acre parking lot," said Michael Callahan, the city's urban design coordinator. "This is not good urban design. The placing and massing of the buildings are crazy."
This amazes me... When did we start having urban designers who gave a shit!?