Each year as we sit down to look at project submissions for the annual Architectural Showcase issue of HEALTHCARE DESIGN (published every September), I find myself impressed by the overall quality of the design of so many of the projects. It seems like each year the...
Over the last 20 years, we have witnessed a transformation in the way healthcare buildings are designed and constructed. At the heart of this new sustainable (or green) design movement is a systems approach that recognizes the interconnections between design,...
DESIGN 2008 Best in Show Announced at EFA From left to right: SAGE President John Pace, SAGE Vice-President Amy Carpenter, Perkins Eastman designer Daniel Cinelli, DESIGN Publisher Jennifer Werba, and DESIGN Editor-in-Chief Richard Peck Childers Place, designed by...
After more than a century of innovation in children's rehabilitation, Bloorview Kids Rehab in Toronto opened in a new, one-of-a-kind facility in 2006. Throughout the design stages for Canada's newest and largest children's rehabilitation hospital facility, one...
Within six months of the Parker Adventist Hospital opening in Parker, Colorado, administrators noticed a significant increase in nurse turnover. The reason for the increase: the hospital's bed units were planned as acuity-adaptable units (figure). They revised that...
Denver-based photographic artist Rhonda Grimberg has always had a fondness for the healing qualities of art in healthcare. “My Signature Collections of still life and floral imagery have a soothing quality while having visual strength,” says Grimberg. “These are the...
Project Summary ©2006 JIM STEINKAMP, STEINKAMP BALLOGG PHOTOGRAPHY Completed: July 2006 Client: Advocate Lutheran General Hospital Architecture: OWP/P, 312.332.9600 General Contractor: Power Construction, 847.214.6330 Total Building Area (sq. ft.): 94,987 (39,533...
Clarification: Shepley Bulfinch served as Design Architect for the Bronson BirthPlace and NICU project featured in the April 2008 Pebble Report. The firm was retained by Bronson to ensure the new project was sympathetic to the design language it had established in the...
Primary care and hospital buildings involve a little bit of everything,” says an article in the excellent British magazine Building Design. “Their foyers and public spaces relate to public buildings in general, their consulting rooms to office suites, waiting rooms...
Rapidly accelerating climate change, caused by greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, is resulting in dangerous environmental events and serious public health consequences. In its recently released Fourth Assessment Report...
When it comes to obtaining a regulatory green light in the rule-filled world of building hospitals, a Building Information Modeling (BIM) approach can make it happen faster and with more clarity. Based on CO Architects' ongoing experience in a pathbreaking California...
In the following video, Susan Mazer, cofounder ofHealing Healthcare Systems, wraps up her session at Environments for Aging 2008 in Tucson, Arizona. The session focused on hearing impairment and the environment. The take-away message was that designers need to be...
