Prentice Women’s Hospital

Like many of Goldberg's previous hospital projects, this building combined a number of once separate facilities into one building. This facility consolidated the Chicago Maternity obstetrics and gynecology departments and the Northwestern Institute of Psychiatry. The hospital featured a rectilinear building of column and beam construction that served as the base for a quatrefoil bed tower of monolithic concrete shell construction. Unlike previous designs in which the exterior shell of the tower building was supported by columns, the shell at Prentice was completely sprung from the core, thus eliminating any supporting columns in the lower building and providing a column free space in the tower, allowing more planning flexibility. Because the supporting columns for the tower were clustered in a central core, it also made space planning for the base building much more efficient.

A promotional piece from the BGA office crows, "the breakthrough design for the seven story bed-tower is new in every respect. New in nursing care: patients are gathered in four small groups on each floor, each group with a nursing center, to provide better attention for the patient and fewer steps for the nurse and doctor."

In 1975, BGA received an award from Engineering News Record for distinguished architectural and engineering development for innovations in the Prentice Hospital structure.