Linda DeHart knows that her latest project A Thousand Windows: A Long Walk in Beauty and its subsequent Colors in Motion DVD descendent have been a long time coming-70 years in fact. The 70-year-old daughter of an architect was recently asked to do a retrospective of...
Bringing order to mega-growth In 1998, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital made a bold business move: it merged with the Columbia University Medical Schools, New York Hospital, and the Weill Cornell Medical School to form New York's largest healthcare system. Today this...
When Corporate Pebble Partner Philips Healthcare is asked to design a medical environment, the group brings a decidedly creative perspective to the table. Leveraging the global resources of parent Royal Philips, the company assembles a multidisciplinary design team...
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Coining a new phrase is rarely an intentional endeavor, but I am going to take a run at it.
Green Stain: When practices which are assumed to be sustainable, are forced upon the public through regulation or populism, without proper scientific support of their effectiveness and without regard to their cost or negative implication.
I received an email from the AIA today urging me to contact my congressman and urge them to hurry up and pass healthcare reform. In the email it said that the AIA has not endorsed any particular legislation, but “…that America’s architects believe that the time has come for affordable, quality, health-care.” Isn’t this stating the obvious? Is there a single architect, or even a single person in the country who would disagree with this? What exactly am I being asked to do, and why?
Take a video tour of the Cleveland Clinic's new heart center with NBBJ architects Edwin Beltran, senior associate, and Lisa Baker, ASID, IIDA. The nearly 1-million-square-foot Miller Family Pavilion serves as the main entrance to Cleveland Clinic and the new home of...
In an attempt to make hospital environments more comfortable, welcoming and 'home-like', the direction in patient room interior design over the past half decade has been to make the spaces more like a hotel room. When do these attempts for a hospitality feel interfere...
We’ve just opened up the nominations process for the 2009 Most Influential People in Healthcare Design. We’re looking for you to tell us who are the most influential architects, designers, owners, or others impacting the design and construction of healthcare...
If your facility is outdated or in need of cosmetic or structural repairs, you have two options: replace it by relocating or rebuilding, or remodel it. It’s not always an easy decision, so be sure to evaluate your situation and consider all of your options. Leased...
Several years ago, an HGA colleague and I decided that to provide the most effective design strategies for healthcare clients we needed to better understand the needs of their clients—the patients. To do this, we needed to quantify and translate the patients’...
When was the last time you visited the Emergency Room and had to wait in a chair that after five minutes of sitting in the worn out, flat cushioned, peeling vinyl seat you knew it was going to be a long night? Here's a question for all the new Dad's out there; “What...
