The new hospital will be approached from the southeast through healing gardens. From this angle, its aluminum-cladded, glass-curtained façade is meant to suggest a simple, white box (perhaps even a toy box) whose sheer front will partially reveal the activities within.  Three exposed pillars -- painted or cladded in red, green and blue to suggest the children's game of jackstraws --  will rise 7 flights to support the building's cantilevered uppermost 2 floors, which will close the top of the box like an overhanging lid.
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