Chason Affinity Companies - Kaleida Health

Kaleida Health/Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital Reuse
Project Concept
Gates Reuse: Thoughts on History, Healing and Renewal…
A Veterinary School + Hospital
The presence of the past is prologue for the future. Reuse and adaption of our past, as we transform
to a future, will anchor our heritage and provide the best platform for our aspirations. We do not
seek a blank slate, rather we adapt to what is and transform it into what can be: a place of healing
becomes a renewed place of healing and an urban network of community linkages transforming
the site into an intellectual, educational and economic engine, benefitting the community and
the region. We Heal the site, we Heal the urban fabric, and we Heal the community.
While building on the existing infrastructure as a platform, we introduce state of the art technology
and systems for a new Veterinary School and Hospital: a new area of specialty medicine and
research support in our community which is itself transforming into a center of human medical and
research excellence. We bring a new economic engine to our city.
The community linkages will reinforce the Olmsted System by extending its influence to the entire
site, embracing our center with new green space and parkland. Paved parking areas will be greatly
reduced; the least appropriate
elements of the existing structure will
be surgically removed and recycled
into the new facilities. What remains
are the most fit structures and systems
for the future, built on our past. The
extended properties owned to the
North and East will be integrated in
a long–range urban plan that will
reinforce the community integration
and accessibility of the complex.
We suggest other adjacent sites
for consideration of associated
change; which reinforce the solidity
and sublimity of this new urban
center.
Veterinary School + Hospital
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