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and a culture of partnership, are the official supplier for British Rowing and were named Private Hospital Group of the Year by LaingBuisson in 2015.Still, at first glance, you’d be forgiven for not immediately recognising the building’s function as a state-of-the-art medical facility.

This is a hospital which, according to Bookings Team Leader Adam Chivers, patients often comment, ‘looks like a five star hotel.’.With its distinctive black glass, basket weave cladding, the hospital’s exterior panels seem to reflect the expansive movement of sky and clustered cloud formations from every angle.It’s an aesthetic which manifests Bryden Wood’s belief that a hospital occupies a special status of building in society, one with such a substantial level of importance and value that it deserves to be signified in the very appearance of the structure.

The physicality of the Circle Reading building is both luminous and reflective, fundamentally optimistic feeling, but also discreet and secure.‘We were able, with Circle Reading, to give the building an aesthetic which was beyond purely functional,’ says Wood..

Beyond its striking glass exterior, lies the building’s central atrium - a sleek, communal space, three stories high and full of light, which houses a reception and cafe, accompanying tables, leather sofas and modern artwork.

It’s an area Orthopaedic Surgeon, Raj Goel jokingly, but admiringly, refers to as ‘the foyer.’ ‘Patients say, “Wow, what a great place to work in,”’ he says..We have to start opening up our eyes and stop pushing down responsibility onto somebody else.

That's why we're so siloed.Also, we can't keep automating inefficient processes.”.

The global evolution of industrialised construction.Ultimately, every single part of the ecosystem has a role to play in this new world, and everyone has to work out what their role is.