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The Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) in a joint venture with ICME and Tilke Engineers & Architects, combines three hospitals into one 3-million-square-foot, 838-bed complex in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Shared medical facilities fill a two-story plinth at the base, and bed towers rise from the elevated ground plane of the podium’s roof.