Hartford, home of the Boat Building (Phoenix Mutual) and the Candy Cane Building (Hartford Square North), now has another architecturally distinctive landmark: the Hartford HealthCare Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.

Don’t worry about a nickname, because an aerial view of the $150 million structure on the Hartford Hospital campus recalls two bones connected by a ligament. The bones are a five-story, 150,000-square-foot inpatient hospital and four-story, 86,000-square-foot ambulatory center joined by the ligament’s dramatic third-story skywalk over Seymour Street.

It is, unmistakably, the Bone & Joint Building.

From the ground, white metal panels and ribbon windows form the sweeping curves that fulfill the “life in motion” design mission of New York’s Perkins+Will, the design architect. (HDR of Princeton, N.J., was the project’s executive architect. Gilbane Building Co. of Glastonbury was the contractor for the inpatient building. FIP Construction of Farmington was the contractor for the ambulatory and medical space.) If the outer building represents the ways the human body can stretch, bend, curl, twist, reach, walk, sprint and leap, then the interior becomes a place to restore, strengthen and celebrate that movement. A landscaped rehabilitation garden links visually with the botanical park to the south designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, introducing nature to patient healing.

The curved lines extend into the Bone & Joint Institute’s interior, with a wooden railing on a second-story balcony the connective tissue that links the two sides of the lobby. Down below, the lobby features a café, private lounge areas, social gathering spaces and outdoor seating.

The first-floor education area and fitness center, prominent from both inside and outside the building, will host wellness classes, sports medicine and public programs open to patients, staff and the community.

The hospital has 10 inpatient and outpatient rooms, up to 52 inpatient beds, diagnostic services, a wellness-rehabilitation center and orthopedic urgent care. The adjacent ambulatory and medical building includes five ambulatory surgery suites and offices for orthopedics, neurosciences and rheumatology.

“The Bone & Joint Institute,” says Jeffrey Flaks, Hartford HealthCare’s president and chief operating officer, “is a game-changer for patients and for our state.”

The Bone & Joint Institute, after a Nov. 15 ribbon-cutting, will start accepting patients in January 2017.