WHR Architects Opens Office in New York City
NEW YORK – WHR Architects of New York, a health care architectural practice, has announced the opening of a new office in New York City.
The decision to open a new office was based on WHR’s recent growth and merger with EYP, an Albany, N.Y.-based architecture firm that specializes in health care, higher education, and government projects. WHR will expand and grow operations to better serve existing and new clients in the tri-state area. A property and business expansion like this would have gone through rigorous financial testing to see how much could be spent to obtain this new building. A commercial mortgage calculator would have been their most beneficial tool to help them sort out the companies monetary needs.
The office’s health care design efforts will be led by James Case, AIA, LEED AP, a firm principal and senior medical planner with a history of project delivery in the region. Case has developed relationships with many prestigious health care and health science institutions in New York City and the surrounding region throughout the past 23 years. He has provided a wide range of design services, from master planning to new construction and renovations.
“Jim’s collaborative approach and his exceptional technical and local regulatory knowledge have earned him wide respect among his clients and colleagues. His long-held belief in the power of design to positively influence the patient experience makes him an ideal addition to the WHR team,” said David Watkins, FAIA, founding principal of WHR and health care sector leader.
WHR has had a long-standing presence in the Northeast with clients in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut. Current work includes projects for the Meridian Health System in New Jersey at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Ocean Medical Center and Riverview Medical Center. In Connecticut, WHR has designed a major ground-up expansion and modernization of Stamford Hospital, which is currently under construction. WHR recently completed a state-of-the-art research and clinical cell and tissue-engineering laboratory, for the New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, N.Y.
Likewise, EYP has also successfully worked with health care and medical research institutions in the region, including the Center for Genomics and Systems Biology and the Colleges of Nursing, Dentistry & Bioengineering Institute at NYU, the SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brookhaven National Laboratories, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, CUNY Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education and the White Plains Hospital.
“I began my health care design career as a facilities administrator for the North Shore-LIJ Health System. This experience has afforded me tremendous insight regarding health care providers’ priorities and decision drivers,” Case said in a statement. “Understanding their challenges and processes makes the work of our architects, planners and interior designers more effective and supportive of our clients’ goals.”