AHBE Landscape Architects Unveils Healing
Gardens for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
AHBE Landscape
Architects
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T
he Healing Gardens
for Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center create
an environment in
the heart of the city
that help to promote
healing, health and well-being.
AHBE Landscape Architects, an
esteemed Los Angeles-based
firm known for its expertise in
designing thoughtful, evocative
landscapes that allow for
contemplation and reflection, has
created a healing environment
at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
for patients, hospital staff, and
visiting families and friends.
Unique solution transforms a
concrete plaza into a restorative
space in the city.
The existing site consisted
of a concrete plaza atop a
multi-level garage. Using the
metaphor of human skin, AHBE
developed a multi-layered
landscape solution that
protects the existing building’s
structural and mechanical
integrity and accounts for
an existing drainage system,
emergency access, lighting
and way finding, as well as
extreme weather conditions.
The solution – a unique, green
roof-inspired system built onto
the plaza’s existing structure
– maximizes the impact of the
landscape while minimizing
construction and alterations to
the existing building.