Mount Sinai Queens
New Building + Clinical Modernization
Queens, New York

140,000 SF • IN ASSOCIATIOn WITH NK ARCHITECTS

Davis Brody Bond and NK Architects worked closely with Mount Sinai Queens to expand their facilities, modernize clinical suites, and unify the sprawling 140,000 sf complex. Together with future users and administrators of the space, we developed a set of planning and phasing plans that allowed MSQ to achieve their institutional goals while remaining in operation throughout construction. The newly-expanded facility dramatically enhances the level of care available at the hospital. Medical and surgical capabilities — previously only available in Mount Sinai’s Manhattan locations — are now easily accessible to the community they have served for the past 120 years. The expansion also provides additional patient-centered care facilities for Operating Rooms, Emergency Department Stations, Endoscopy, Cardiology Medicine Offices, Ambulatory Surgery, Morgue, Lab Imaging, Pharmacy, and Urgent Care. 

The new state-of-the-art Emergency Department is nearly five times the size of the former ED and features a combination of private rooms, patient bays, a cardiac resuscitation room, and separate pediatric emergency areas. New operating rooms allow surgeons to perform elective, emergency and complex procedures using the latest advances in medical technology. Outpatient imaging employs the latest technology, including mammography, bone density, ultrasound, CT, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT), to provide advanced diagnostic services.

In addition to the new tower, the existing building received a new exterior enclosure to improve the energy performance and unify the complex with a single architectural language.

(Photography courtesy of NK Architects)