[5] Deitrich Neumann, from the Department of History of Art and Architecture, Brown University, Providence, one of the members of the jury, stated "this careful restoration does full justice to the subtleties of the original building, its particular handling of light, and the seeming weightlessness of its composition.

In this project, practical conservation and thorough scholarship reinforced each other in finding the best approach to the preservation of one of modern architecture's most important buildings.

However, it still embodies the definition of the modern architecture by the immense amount of repetition, bold geometric shapes and the avoidance of superfluous decoration.

The buildings are arranged in a loose "pin-wheel" design that created separation between patients' rooms, giving each of them the adequate amount of sunlight needed for therapy.

It has been said that the famous Paimio Sanatorium in Finland by Alvar Aalto was greatly influenced by Zonnestraal; it is known that Aalto had visited Zonnestraal in 1928 just prior to the design of Paimio, and its organization of space is based on the same heliotropic arrangement of white concrete volumes, with a central building and off-shooting wings, but Zonnestraal is completely symmetrical in layout, whilst Paimio is organic, sat in a rolling terrain amidst a dense forest.