From the exterior, the placement of these so-called pop-out windows (glass boxes that jut out from the exterior of the building) seems totally haphazard. But there was a method to the madness, Mr. Colucci says. Each of the 472 patient rooms has one of these windows, large enough for an adult to stand in and gaze out on the city and surrounding parkland. The vertical windows, the architect explains, reflect Bridgepoint’s health-care goal: “When you come into the hospital, you’re often scared, sick, confined to bed and with a horizontal view of the world outside. But as you recuperate, and start to walk and stand, you become, physically, more vertical.”Fernando Morales/The Globe and Mail