The fog snaked in from my starboard side, growing ominously until it swallowed all visual reference. I was kayaking alone across a large expanse of open water to a remote island on Lake Superior. Loaded with supplies and camera gear, I was prepared for three days of camping and landscape photography.
Robert Canfield Plano, Texas ZGF Architects/PageSoutherlandPage Category: Category B: Built, More than $25 million (construction cost) Project: Children's Medical Center at Legacy Client: Children's Medical Center of Dallas Project Location: Plano, Texas Architects:...
John Pangrazio FAIA, FACHA NBBJ Seattle, Washington Jury Chair John Pangrazio is widely regarded as one of the country's leaders in healthcare architecture. He is recognized among healthcare architects for the breadth of his understanding of the issues affecting the...
IMAGES PROVIDED BY HKS, INC. Use of nature is a great way of creating a campus that is more than just healthcare. Walking trails can provide a respite for families with children or relatives in the hospital. Hospitality design intertwined with healthcare architecture...
Evidence-based design isn't just for new construction. Whether a project is large or small, new construction or a renovation, the process of basing design decisions on credible research can lead to better healthcare outcomes. While a renovation may impose additional...
As an interior designer working on large projects for senior housing facilities for the past 20 years, I have been in a constant battle with manufacturers to produce products that meld the three most important criteria specifically needed for senior housing: aesthetics, code compliance, and durability.
An unprecedented $194.5 billion was spent on healthcare construction between 2004 and 2008 (Jones, 2009). However, 2009-2010 marked a new economy. Markets experienced financial losses throughout 2009, and December 2009 marked the second year of revenue declines at...
Hospitals are noisy and stressful places. Most exceed the World Health Organization standards in average noise levels. A recent study showed that hospitals are getting noisier each year, with a growing cacophony of people, alarms, machines, and clattering carts. 1...
The AIA Healthcare Awards program showcases the best of healthcare building design and healthcare design-oriented research. Projects exhibit conceptual strengths that solve aesthetic, civic, urban, and social concerns, as well as the requisite functional and...
When reliable and practical evidence related to design features and principles is used, facility design decisions can contribute to more effective health services delivery. Recent trends suggest a heightened interest in evidence-based healthcare facility design. However, it is not clear how healthcare organizations engaged in renovation or new construction projects are actually using different types of information during the design process, or the kind of sources of evidence being used.
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When you type in “healthcare design” on Google, you get 134,000,000 results. When you type in “healthcare design education,” 9,270,000 are revealed. While there is Evidence-based Design Accreditation and Certification, Planetree Visionary Design Network certification,...
