[3] The first four floors of this 10-story 476,000 square feet vertical campus, house the Gates Vascular Institute, with the Clinical and Translational Research Center occupying the top half of the building.

[1] The Universal Grid consists of three 10'6" building modules that create a 31'6" x 31'6" structural grid—in conjunction with an 18' floor-to-floor height.

[4] The combined buildings of the Gates Vascular Institute and Buffalo General Medical Center house a new emergency department, a new helipad, 610 beds, 28 operating rooms, 17 interventional labs, four CT scanners and four MRIs.

[5] The jury stated the building "possesses unique design and planning concepts that demonstrate a great deal of innovation.

By appropriating some lessons from an activity based workplace the team creates overlapping and shared spaces to challenge conventional hierarchies in health center planning.