The recently completed Ballarat Regional Integrated Cancer Centre designed by Billard Leece Partnership has been shortlisted for the World Architecture Festival awards in the Health Category.
With 51 Australian projects shortlisted for the awards, the Cancer Centre is just one of two Australian projects in the Health Category.
It brings together facilities for care, therapy and treatment previously located disparately across Ballarat, and combines them with office, research and education spaces, community facilities and a Wellness Centre. A one-stop-shop for cancer care has been created.
The building itself it a reinvigorated historic building with a new five-storey glass tower, which flanks a central waiting/meeting atrium space that acts as an urban town square where all activity passes through and is visible.
New life has been given to the existing building and has energised the hospital circulation. It has reengaged with the city grain by opening up to the community from Ballarat’s main street.
The new glazed tower changes character through the day and with the seasons, while profiled aluminium fins cast shadows across the glass surface façade which reflects the clouds, sky, and trees around the facility.
As one of the tallest buildings in the city, its distinctive profile and surface patterning project an image of state-of-the-art care for people of Ballarat and the region.
Shortlisted projects for the World Architecture Awards were announced on 3 July in London, with winners to be announced at the Festival in Singapore in October.
