Nature-inspired seating pattern Victor Innovatex has launched its new open line seating pattern, Rivière. Rivière is 100% Eco Intelligent® Polyester and is certified Cradle to Cradle Gold by MBDC. The pattern consists of whimsical, free-flowing multicolored dots in a...
The museum at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago is impressive. It provides visitors with a glimpse of the facility's history, as well as of some of the prominent doctors who have practiced there and in its precedent institutions. The opportunity to experience...
The Center for Health Design has recently gone through a major growth spurt. For any of you who pay attention to this column on a regular basis or read our news releases that are sent via e-mail, it may seem as though we add one or two new employees every month to The...
Achieving a national milestone wasn't part of the plan when the Providence Newberg Medical Center (PNMC) team embarked on the design of a new $60 million hospital in Newberg, Oregon, but creating a facility that promoted the healthcare system's mission and core values...
Woven wallcovering Inox from Maharam is a series of four woven wallcoverings with a modern, technical aesthetic. The sleek surfaces of Inox Basic, Inox Basket, Inox Structure, and Inox Texture are each constructed with a semi-transparent polyethylene tape yarn. When...
Virtual reality” has its virtues. Technology allows architectural designers to show our customers around a space without ever really entering it, viewing it from angles that simply aren't visible from a rendering or interior elevation. A virtual walk-through can...
There's something about moving water that soothes the spirit. The constantly changing pattern and soft murmur of water is calming and mesmerizing. It's even therapeutic. Decades of scientific research show that the sound and visual images that falling water create...
It is interesting to observe that among the first projects to fully embrace the more sustainable or “green” building types, institutional—primarily educational—projects lead the way to LEED certification. But, until recently, very few of these more sustainable...
Increasingly, hospitals are searching for new and more efficient ways to deliver healthcare to their communities without sacrificing their high quality standards. The quest for shrinking operating margins causes hospitals to focus on simultaneously increasing volume...
It could be called “hometown cardiac care” in Plano, Texas, where a new 68-bed, 198,000-square-foot heart hospital, designed for exceptional performance and comfort, aims to meet the expectations of an affluent and educated population. Patients are grouped according...
This year, the Energy Policy Act (EPAct) extends daylight saving time (DST) in the United States by four weeks. The idea behind this change is to see if it will reduce energy consumption. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will study the affect of daylight saving on...
Evidence-based design is certainly not a new concept in the healthcare industry. In fact, it is increasingly applauded by architects, designers, and administrators for its impact on a number of key result areas: clinical results such as the improvement of patient...
