Interior Design Magazine's Best of Year Awards Recognizes Three NBBJ Projects
Interior Design Magazine honors three NBBJ-designed projects, including the Montage Health Ohana Center for Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health in California, which wins the Best of Year Award in the “Healthcare” category. In addition, the new Hana Bank Trading Floor in Seoul and a confidential company headquarters, are recognized as Best of Year finalists in the “Small Finance Office” category and the “Large Corporate Office” category, respectively. You can read more about the projects, and see images, by scrolling down below.
Montage Health Ohana Center: Best of Year Winner
The Ohana Center for Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health, which wins a Best of Year award in the “Healthcare” category, is oriented around nature for patient and caregiver wellness. Terraced into the Monterey hillside, the design intertwines care and environment as one. It features calming, low carbon mass timber elements, expansive windows and gentle curves to create a welcoming, calming refuge for all. Rather than isolate young patients from each other and the outdoors, Ohana unites neuroscience research in collaboration with Dr. John Medina to create a wholly new type of healthcare environment for the region.
Hana Bank Trading Floor: Best of Year Finalist
The Hana Bank Trading Floor is a finalist in the "Small Finance Office" category. Creating a transparent hub for not just investment activities, but media interviews and conferences, the innovative design of the trading floor embraces the infinite cycles of the market with the symbol of the “infinity loop." The experience starts in the wood and terrazzo lobby, where employees and visitors are greeted by a dynamic, ever-changing digital screen that flexes for different occasions—a centerpiece for digital data art, media filming, investment visualizations, industry events and more. Sinuous, spiraling stairs rise to an upper level that hosts an adjacent cocoon meeting lounge. Its curved form floats above an atrium that overlook a 25-desk trading floor to balance transparency and privacy.
