Guy's Hospital - Great Maze Pond, London, UK

Architect	Watkins Gray Woodgate International
Date Built	1968 - 1973
Location	Great Maze Pond, Southwark
Description
As its Wikipedia page explains, "... Guy's Hospital is a large NHS hospital in the borough of Southwark in central London. It is part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and one of the institutions that comprise the King's Health Partners, an academic health science centre. It is a large teaching hospital and is, with St Thomas' Hospital and King's College Hospital, the location of King's College London School of Medicine."  The hospitals numerous buildings sit in the shadow of The Shard on either side of Great Pond Maze and next to the railway lines going into London Bridge Railway Station. Until the Shard was built, the hospital's Tower Wing was the dominant feature of the area.  At 148.65m with 34 floors it is the world's tallest hospital building.  "The Tower Wing was completed in 1974 and stood more than 142 metres high."  In 2008 it lost the title of tallest hospital building to the Phase 3 Building of the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital in Happy Valley, Hong Kong.  "In May 2014 it regained its title following the completion of extensive repair and improvement works.  ...  It is an example of modernist-Brutalist architecture, common at the time it was built, leaning towards the aesthetic in its slopes of its roof. A lobby occupies much of the ground floor, while most of the other floors are medical departments. A dental school is on the 17th and 18th floors and a dental department on floors 20-28. The 29th floor has a baby clinic and the 30th floor has a lecture room, which also doubles as a viewpoint." Below are some images of the tower prior to the refurbishment.

Here is the re-cladding in progress.



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