With the aid of architectural precast concrete spandrel panels, a new seven-story hospital tower and emergency care facility at Skolnick Surgical Tower in Miami Beach features a sweeping, curved façade. The building – designed by CannonDesign of St. Louis and being constructed by Robins & Morton of Birmingham – was completed in 2018 as the centerpiece of Mount Sinai’s medical campus on Biscayne Bay.

From the beginning, the owner wanted the 340,000-square-foot addition to feature an artistic design that inspired the community and maximized the location’s soaring views of Biscayne Bay and the Miami skyline. “The facility needed to aspire to something beyond a standard patient tower,” says Michael Zensen, project architect for Cannon Design. “And it needed to embrace and take advantage of those powerful vistas.”