When Emory Healthcare and Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University first approached the design and construction community in 2018 about their intention to build a cancer center, the stated goal was to create a facility “that has never been seen or imagined.”
“As an architect, you get pretty excited by a statement like that,” recalls Anthony Treu, principal at Skidmore Owings and Merrill. “Our response was that we wanted to make sure there weren’t any preconceptions about how to design and build a cancer center.”