On Saturday, May 2, Children's Hospital will move from its longtime home in Oakland into a new facility in Lawrenceville.

In this user's guide, the Post-Gazette explores the new facility, its history, features and highlights through stories, photos, videos and graphics, with a reader forum where you can share your own impressions.

Design elements combine to put patients, parents at ease
Officials, architects and designers of the new 1.5 million-square-foot Children's Hospital campus intended to create a facility for children and their families that -- almost -- feels like home.

• PG video: Design of the new Children's Hospital
• PG video: Impressions of a healing environment
• PG gallery: Photos of the new hospital
• PG map: Getting there
• PG graphic: Campus layout, buildings in .pdf format 1.3MB version | 5MB
• PG graphic: Creating a homelike environment

Reader forum: Share your thoughts about the new hospital

• A vision: Become one of nation's top pediatric research centers

• Room with a view to healing

• Hospital artwork designed to make kids smile

• Designers go all out to cut noise levels, with vibrating phones, quiet flooring

• Technology keeps children connected

• Advanced technology from the ground up

• Travel times: Getting to the new hospital from around the 'Burgh

• A decade of decisions shaped new Children's Hospital

• Virtual visit

• Virtual video tours

• More information