Project Details
SIZE:	79,000 sq.ft.
COMPLETED:	2008
CATEGORY:	Medical Office Building
LOCATION:	Knox County, TN
OWNER:	St. Mary's Health Systems
DEVELOPER:	Knoxville Equity Partners, LLC

LGA and consultant, Gresham, Smith & Partners, developed a two-phase master plan for the 50-acre site at Emory Road. Phase One, an Ambulatory Care Center (ACC) and Phase Two, a three-story Medical Office Building (MOB), began construction in the fall of 2003. The ACC houses a state-of-the-art Cancer Center, a Women's Center, and Imaging Department. Services will include CT, MRI, nuclear medicine, and a linear accelerator, as well as mammography and oncology. The facilities, visible from the highway, are designed to be distinctive in the surrounding suburban context, while avoiding an appearance of institutional monumentality. Its warm materials and colors are light red and light brown brick tones in combination with precast concrete decorative elements. The tall vaulted entrance to the Phase One facilities serves both the MOB and the ACC. The transparent curtain walls provide generous light and spaciousness to the lobby.