GOSH's Sight and Sound Centre scoops Euro Design Award

16 Jun 2022, 9:24 a.m.

A photo of the sight and sound centre sensory garden on the 1st floor of the Sight and Sound building. It has 3 round wooden paving areas with seats around. It has green plants around the border and two bushes in the middle of the patio areas.

Great Ormond Street Hospital's (GOSH) Sight and Sound Centre has won a prestigious European Healthcare Design Award in the healthcare design category and was highly commended in the art and interior design category.

The Centre was designed with children and young people with sensory loss and includes a sensory garden with plants that children can see, touch, smell and hear. Bespoke and engaging artworks especially commissioned for children with sensory loss feature in the new centre alongside state-of-the-art clinical facilities such as soundproofed booths for hearing tests, an eye imaging suite, a dispensing opticians and other testing facilities. The centre opened in June 2021 and was supported by Premier Inn.

Read our Sight and Sound launch news story from 2021.

It is fantastic that our new centre has been recognised in these awards. It is testament to the work of everyone involved in the project, including the children and young people involved in developing the designs. We hope that the Centre makes coming to hospital a little bit easier, taking away some of the challenges or worries children may face."

Crispin Walkling-Lea, GOSH Healthcare planner, who received the award at a ceremony on 14 June.

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