The pedestrian plaza, with its large covering held up by slim lined steel columns, and its hallway, made entirely of glass, make up the heart of the complex and are testimony to the design of the project as a hospital no longer to be considered a closed off place verging on the hostile. The New Entrance is not merely a door to go inside but is an area for strolling, for meeting others, and a place which represents the intricacy of the largest hospital development in all of central Italy: a new ‘square’, a covered plaza like the grand urban traditions of the Florentine “loggias”.