Sophia
The journalist from Architectural Digest arrived on a Thursday morning, a woman named Priya with a photographer trailing behind her, and I spent the better part of an hour walking them through the finished sections of the wing, the courtyard now fully planted, the sky-painted ceiling glowing warm under the skylights exactly the way I'd imagined it a lifetime ago in a battered notebook.
"This is remarkable work," Priya said, pausing in the main corridor where the hallway curved gently before opening into the courtyard view, exactly the adjustment Mark had suggested that night in my office over cold Thai food. "Most healthcare design still treats children's spaces as an afterthought. This feels intentional in every square foot."
"That was the whole goal," I said, feeling something
