The New O’Brien Building on The St Vincent’s Hospital Campus

This is the new O’Brien Building on the St Vincent’s Hospital campus in Darlinghurst, Sydney Australia. It was designed by BVN Architecture. This building creates a new urban square and liberates the heritage façade of the deLacy Building. The architect demolished the many unsympathetic additions to pull the O’Brien building back from the deLacy. The O’Brien was placed on the rear of the existing deLacy building that created a tight site.

There’s an open atrium that create a stairwell from level three up to level seven to bring daylight down from the upper level clerestory. The first two floors are below ground and have a high level of security. The main board room and meeting rooms are located in the middle of the facility. It is visible to staff through glass walls overlooking the stair void. Kitchens and lounges are also located around the atrium on higher levels.

The kitchen and lounges give staff plenty of natural light in a spacious café. Besides that, there’s a sunny common room with a large café/kitchen opening onto a courtyard. The patient wards and consulting rooms are planned around parallel corridors. These patient wards can easily accessible from the central stair and lift lobbies.