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The key landmark in the area is Altnagelvin Hospital. Now clad with white insulated panels and surrounded by extensions of varying quality, it is shown here as first opened in 1960. Designed by Yorke Rosenberg and Mardall (YRM) it was the fist purpose built hospital of the UK National Health Service. A tower block on top of a ridge, set within parkland, it conformed to classic modernist themes, but its use of local brick and stone and well placed primitive art, also formed links to the local area and imparted a sense of timelessness. Still worth a visit if only to see the remains of the Star Trek like lettering in the stair well
The key landmark in the area is Altnagelvin Hospital. Now clad with white insulated panels and surrounded by extensions of varying quality, it is shown here as first opened in 1960. Designed by Yorke Rosenberg and Mardall (YRM) it was the fist purpose built hospital of the UK National Health Service. A tower block on top of a ridge, set within parkland, it conformed to classic modernist themes, but its use of local brick and stone and well placed primitive art, also formed links to the local area and imparted a sense of timelessness. Still worth a visit if only to see the remains of the Star Trek like lettering in the stair well
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