Site Visit 27-03-02

On March 27, 2002, a delegation of staff from National Women's Hospital visited Level 9 of the Acute Services Building (ASB) on the Grafton site. Members of Newborn who visited were Carl Kuschel, David Knight, Jean Bertram, Ros Gasparini, and Carolynn Whiteman.

At this stage, the building is largely a shell but the images below will give some indication of where work is up to on the site and, more importantly, the fantastic views from the 9th floor of the building. At this point in time, we are regretting not staking our claim for the North-East corner of the building!

The view north over the helipad carpark. Starship Hospital is just seen in the bottom right-hand corner.	The view north-east. The part of the ASB that you can see is part of delivery unit.	Catherine Turner orientating the group to what was where.	The group inspecting a large puddle of water.	This will be the view from the tutorial room in NICU. The Wallace block in the background will be demolished and replaced with a multistorey carpark.
This is the view from the proposed tearoom. A sibling playroom is proposed to sit with an outdoor (and fenced, obviously) area on top of the projection from the Tower Block (seen straight across).	This is looking north from one of the Level 3 rooms on the northern side of the NICU. There will be an atrium linking the ASB to Auckland Hospital which will impact on the current view.	The entire length of the hospital is enormous. This image is looking west.	This is a view from one of the southern Level 3 rooms, looking out over Park Road and the Domain.	This view is from where NICU ends, looking back over to the east over the Domain.

Site Visit March 27, 2002