Following both LEED and Green Guide for Health Care guidelines, The Legacy Project will be an innovative health care facility designed to exceed human health and environmental expectations.

Busby Perkins+Will, in collaboration with Farrow Partnership Architects Inc., was retained in 2006 to design the new Providence Legacy Hospital located on False Creek Flats in downtown Vancouver. The initial task involved a thorough and on going urban design analysis of the site and surrounding context. This analysis required an understanding of community services and infrastructure.

As such, photographic and digital site surveys and context were prepared to be used as the basis of scheme design. Character studies of the surrounding context achieved an understanding of architectural character, materiality, landscape features, and public realm amenities.

In conjuction with PHC Legacy project, the design team members have produced pre-design concepts, initial clinical planning, masterplanning, massing options and development strategies for the hospital redevelopment, ensuring the design remains focused on sustainability and effective patient care. This redesign will allow the efficient incoporation of the most current technology, facilities and patient flow-processes as well as provide BC with a superior teaching facility. Targeting a minimum of LEED Gold certification, the new hospital will incorporate green strategies which will include convenient transit connections, maximum use of natural light, low energy consumption and natural ventilation systems that will enhance the hospital's ability to control airborne infectious diseases.