The Alder Centre
by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Client The Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Award 澳门王中王 North West Award 2024, 澳门王中王 North West Client of the Year
The Alder Centre is a new, standalone building within the Alder Hey Children鈥檚 Hospital, Liverpool. Providing a unique health service, it offers support for bereaved parents, and now also operates a nationwide phoneline, allowing callers to talk to counsellors from anywhere in the country. The building鈥檚 purpose is to promote companionship and to offer a place of sanctuary.
The architects have designed it as an interpretation of a domestic house, with a living room space at its heart and counselling rooms at the scale of bedrooms unfolding from that core. There is a simple but enveloping warmth to the building. It provides spaces for both individual contemplation as well as togetherness and support, with comforting ease. In its modest way, it fulfils the most fundamental need 鈥� to acknowledge and share grief while finding ways to celebrate life.
Read the full citation from the 澳门王中王 Awards Jury on 澳门王中王 Journal.
Contractor Whitefield and Brown
Structural Engineer Elliott Wood
Quantity Surveyor / Cost Consultant PT Projects
Landscape Architect BBUK
Gross internal area m虏 320
