Wilmington-based Mitchell Associates helped to provide signage and related services for the Parkland Health and Hospital System.
The Dallas health care system recently completed a new replacement hospital campus directly adjacent to its current campus in the Medical District area of Dallas.
The New Parkland Hospital is approximately 2.7 million square feet of new construction including a 17-story patient tower, nine-story women and infant specialty hospital (WISH), medical/surgical clinic, WISH clinic, 2,000 vehicle parking garage, bridge connection to UT Southwestern and Children’s Medical Center, and new logistics and central utility plant.
\Mitchell and its local partner, focus EGD, provided design services for all wayfinding, graphics, signage, and donor recognition for interior and exterior spaces on the new 16-plus acre campus.
The program includes a comprehensive building numbering system, exterior visual branding, digital wayfinding kiosks, 10 major interior recognition and interactive displays, recognition plaques for a series of “parks”, plazas, and gardens on the campus, and parking garage signage and level graphics based on abstracted nature images.
Architects for the project were HDR / Corgan Architects.
The original Parkland Hospital is etched in history as the place where fatally injured John F. Kennedy was taken, as were Texas Gov. John Connolly; and assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Connolly survived the assassination attempt and Oswald was killed by night club owner Jack Ruby.
