Building a patientless healthcare research center
The Edward A. Doisy Research Center was designed and constructed primarily to protect the valuable research and experiments being conducted there while connecting the medical and central campuses of Saint Louis University, but creating such a center has more similarities to a building that houses patients than one might expect.
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Art in transformations
Watch a video clip of Transformations, a “diodic art” installation at Frisbie Hospital in Rochester, New Hampshire. cp-kik art studio created the diodic piece using fused glass and programmed LED technology. As the colors of light and glass slowly morph, visitors are likely to perceive a reduced waiting time, according to cp-kik's art-brain research based on three brain properties: priming, mirror neurons, and neural plasticity.
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Another dimension
concept3D's team of 3-D designers creates custom modeling projects from floor plans and places them in Google Earth, giving a business, such as St. Mary's Hospital & Regional Medical Center in Grand Junction, Colorado, a presence in the “Geo Web.” Watch a virtual tour of St. Mary's and read what designers from concept3D and John Spohn of Perkins+Will have to say about the opportunities virtual tours present during the design process.