Dominic Hook

Architect Director London

T: +44 [0] 207 812 8253
E: dominic.hook@bdp.com

Dominic Hook is an architect director in the London studio who specialises in healthcare and education projects.

His work focuses on public healthcare and education projects and he particularly thrives on the challenge of working on large projects with complex sites and briefs. He was the design team leader on the multi award-winning 60,000m² Alder Hey Children’s Health Park in Liverpool and is currently the co-design lead on our 165,000m² New Children’s Hospital in Dublin. The project, due for completion in 2023, is the largest, most complex and significant capital investment project ever undertaken in healthcare in Ireland.

Dominic is also currently the project director of the new Oak Cancer Centre for the Royal Marsden Hospital in Sutton, South London. The building will be a new outpatient facility and is funded by charitable donations. It will contain a new day care unit principally composed of 63 chemotherapy infusion bays which are arrayed in a sweeping crescent facing a new richly landscaped garden. Located within the heart of the facility is a floor for dry lab research. The project will have strong links with the adjacent Institute of Cancer Research headquarters and sits in the centre of the London Cancer Hub masterplan. The project is due for completion in August 2023. Other current projects include, Children's Cancer Centre, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, Epsom & St Helier.

Dominic particularly enjoys designing with a creative interdisciplinary team, drawing upon the best skills of its collaborators. His favourite holidays are city breaks and it is his quest to explore as many inspiring, beautiful and diverse cities as possible

What will be the key characteristic of your industry in 2050?

“Designing form, place and space will take place in real-time in an entirely immersive virtual environment and you’ll be able to invite anyone (colleague, client, student, patient, clinician) to join you in shaping it. When it’s oven ready you will just need to press 3D Print for physical realisation to commence.”

Projects

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Highbury Grove and Samuel Rhodes School

The design wraps the teaching faculties around a new garden and external learning space, with an internal covered street creating a social route through the building.

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Cardiff and Vale College Community Campus

A state-of-the-art college with spectacular views towards Cardiff Bay.

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Alder Hey Children’s Health Park

The building rises out of the park on approach with an undulating profile, making it instantly recognisable and a striking and iconic gateway to Liverpool.

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New Children’s Hospital

The New Children’s Hospital with associated Children’s Research and Innovation Centre facilitates the specialist and complex care of young people with serious illnesses.

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Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children

BDP has been overseeing the phased redevelopment of Great Ormond Street Hospital in Bloomsbury, London.

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News

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BDP attends European Healthcare Design Conference

13/06/2022

The 2022 European Healthcare Design conference is a global convening of design and healthcare professionals in London. This year, the event is focused on, "Recovery, Renewal & Rediscovery: Planning a climate-smart healthcare system".

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Designing for Sick Children

Dominic Hook and Ged Couser

Architect directors Dominic Hook and Ged Couser discuss their approach to designing for sick children.

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