One of the goals of any advanced design, architectural or interior, is to give the building and space a “personality,” a visual expression that can only belong to itself and can be mistaken for no other form or type of its kind. Recently, noted healthcare interior...
Category: Category C: Unbuilt Project: Cancer Center/Hospital/Cancer Research Institute Owner: Confidential Project Location: United States, details withheld Submitting Architect: HKS, Inc. JV or associate architect: UHS Building Solutions MEP engineer: ccrd partners...
In late August 2005 a nearly 250-year-old hospital died. New Orleans' historic Charity Hospital was flooded by a rampaging Mississippi River at the height of Hurricane Katrina, was evacuated, and was never to be used again. The building still stands, however, and is...
Healthcare reform is debated all over the news these days. How to deliver equitable care in a more cost-efficient system that is safe, effective, and timely is the preponderance of many in our nation's capital. It is no easy feat, but for those of us who think about...
This year has, unfortunately, seen a sea change for the architecture/engineering/construction field, as unemployment grows and postponed and cancelled projects continue to mount in a troubled economy. Adding to the uncertainties for healthcare are the mega-debates...
Everyone hopes that the current H1N1 2009 pandemic (swine flu) will remain mild, but the reality is that hospital providers must be prepared for unmitigated virus outbreak. In September 2009, doctors at Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin, Texas, set up two...
I recently joined 200 of my Perkins+Will healthcare architect and interior designer colleagues and dedicated 12 hours to a single focus: innovation. Connected via Web-conferencing, internal Perkins+Will teams across the nation discussed, collaborated, and challenged each other to define, refine, and attempt innovation. We call this annual event our "Center of Excellence," which promotes the growth of our knowledge base and improves our healthcare practice with a varying healthcare focus topic every year.
How many international projects has your firm worked on in the past year? 54.29% - 0 31.43% - 1-2 5.71% - 3-5 8.57% - More than 5 COMMENTS - This sucks but got to keep looking, it can only get better soon, I hope. Very soon.
One of the more interesting opportunities for reducing energy consumption in healthcare facilities is a solution that is older than dirt—literally. Ground heat source systems have been around for hundreds of years, but have only been applied to hospitals in the last 20 to 30 years.
The answer is yes, and I'm not talking about roads, parking, or shuttle busses. It is amazing how much "transportation" goes on inside a hospital every day. Patients, supplies, and food come in. Trash, dirty laundry, and visitors go out. Biomedical equipment goes from unit to unit. Samples and specimens go in and out of the lab. The pharmacy staff takes medication all over the hospital. The loading dock and ambulance bays are easy to identify, but what happens to the supplies or the patient after they enter the door? You get the idea.
Shortly after the opening of The Design Loft I realized the great amount of assistance that the community needed in the form of donations. I constantly had clients, both new and existing, approach me to ask for help for a variety of causes related to healthcare. After...
