2024-11-21T15:22:08-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150360308/3xn-shares-new-copenhagen-children-s-hospital-images-ahead-of-2026-opening Josh Niland 2023-08-16T13:57:00-04:00 >2024-10-25T04:07:38-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ab/ab01e2336b5ef051f7a22719c5177cca.jpeg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/12533/3xn" target="_blank">3XN</a> has shared photos of their nearly complete Copenhagen Children&rsquo;s Hospital project in the Danish capital.</p> <p>Spanning 58,000 square meters (about 624,300 square feet), the design will yield a total of 219 beds for children, teens, and pregnant women, 15 operating rooms, 57 ambulatory care suites for children and adolescents, another 30 for adults, 14 delivery rooms, and a nuclear diagnostics center.&nbsp;</p> <p>Once it opens early next year, the hospital will have a capacity for 900 persons in addition to 1,200 staff. The firm says its design is meant to harness the power of play as a palliative measure and will be completed at a cost of $350 million for its client, the Capital Region of Denmark.</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/f0/f011a057db52909e793951faae6d5a26.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/f0/f011a057db52909e793951faae6d5a26.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image: 3XN</figcaption></figure><figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/70/700fab4ed5c8f51f9b84b92ec795b851.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/70/700fab4ed5c8f51f9b84b92ec795b851.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image: 3XN</figcaption></figure><p>Formed by two asterisk-shaped volumes meant to evoke the image of a pair of widespread hands connected together at the wrist plate, the bays inside the individual "fingers" in the design are bookended by winter gardens at the tips and share a central core reserved for family lounge...</p>