Texas Children’s Hospital – North Campus

This new hospital has assigned each floor a natural element of the Texas landscape - caverns, waterways, limestone ridges, woods, highlands, horizon, and sky - with its associated textures, patterns, and colors. Paths of water through limestone inspire the first floor’s abstract pattern, and a magnificent waterfall flows down a grand staircase in terrazzo. Waterjet-cut animals and paw prints offer other moments of delight, reinforcing the hospital’s mission of “Putting Patients First.” Floor patterns and terrazzo base complement architectural curves and columns, and terrazzo’s nonporous durability and seamless finish facilitate an antiseptic environment.