Colchester East Hants Health Centre

Colchester East Hants Health Centre, in Truro, Nova Scotia, is a new 124-bed hospital that supports medical, surgical, palliative, mental health, critical, emergency, and ambulatory care. Like the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, its design explores similar concepts of variety, vitality, and curiosity. Instead of a traditional main lobby, it has a linear central circulation route that links, edges, and bisects a number of exterior courtyards, like beads along a necklace. As people move through the hospital, they remain constantly connected to the nature of the province of Nova Scotia through these landscaped courtyards and gardens.