Masonry Magazine March 1973 Page. 10
The three-story Carroll K. Steele Wing
The three-story Carroll K. Steele Wing has 66 new medical-surgical beds on the top two levels and emergency/out-patient services on the ground floor. The sculptural look of the building was achieved by the progression of the positive and negative factors on each facade. Face materials are red brick with limestone trim.
ADDISON GILBERT HOSPITAL
The New Carroll King Steele Wing, Gloucester, Massachusetts
Architects & Engineers: Ritchie Associates, Inc.
Mason Contractor: Feldman Construction Co.
The new Carroll King Steele Wing at Addison Gilbert Hospital, Gloucester, Mass., is a three-story building which provides 66 new medical/surgical patient services on the two floors and emergency/out-patient services on the ground floor. Construction cost of the 50,587 sq. ft. addition was $2.5 million.
A close working collaborative of staff, administration, and the physical plant planners early set the goals for the project and adhered to them. There were two complete and interrelated programs. The architectural program defined the building to be harmonious in its relationship with a fine natural setting, and direct in the mechanical solutions to providing patient care. An interior space plan examined the relationships between the spaces and considered human behavioral responses to them.
Planning for the new Steele Wing began in 1968. Groundbreaking was May 15, 1970, and the first patients were moved into the building in February, 1972. It was totally operational by July.
Facades of the reinforced concrete frame building were developed around positive and negative design aspects, creating sculptural voids and solids. Red Harvard-type brick was selected as the facing material (matching existing buildings): mortar was tinted a similar color for a unified look, and the structure's trim material is Indiana limestone. Other exterior materials, such as bronze tinted glazing and fluro-polymer finish on exterior exposed aluminum surfaces, were coordinated to highlight the plan of light and shadow. The two stairwells are expressed outwardly at (Continued on page 28)
masonry • March, 1973