The new hospital spans seven levels and delivers 499 new beds, providing healthcare for the Tweed-Byron region’s growing population.

Conceived as a ‘hospital in the landscape’, it is designed into the topography of the site. The architectural expression consists of three distinct typologies – with quadrant anchors, a recessive core and surrounding granular forms – coming together as a collection of objects in the landscape.

Durable materials such as earthy pigmented concrete, profiled metals and glass reference the site’s agricultural context and distinguish the building forms from one another.

The strong lines of the agrarian landscape are embedded in the façade expression, landscape and interior concepts, creating a holistic, harmonious and unified architectural response, empathetic to the community and symbiotic with its surroundings.

A tree-lined boulevard connects the hospital buildings and ensures intuitive circulation around the site, while a green spine creates open spaces that connect to nature, as well as providing social interaction, recreation and physical activity.

Two Health Hub pavilion buildings provide ancillary health and education services within the hospital’s pedestrian focused town centre, while a 10-storey multi-deck carpark accommodates visitors and hospital staff.