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Innovative design solutions: Second floor emergency department?
When the 23-story Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago opens in June 2012, it will…
News July 31Notes from a building biography
One of the fascinations of Architecture is its wedding of aesthetic aspirations with the most mundane practicalities. Architects…
News July 31Building the rural hospital of the future
© Warren Lieb Hampton Regional Medical Center: 2008 image of new hospital concave-shaped front façade and arcade, front…
News July 31Five Questions to Ask Your Designer
For designers, costs, economies, and expertise are playing a larger role in the healthcare industry. In a competitive…
News July 28ASID: Office culture: Designers have chotskies too
Just over a year ago, our Perkins+Will DC office was awarded a new corporate project: the new Perkins+Will…
News July 25Does effective BIM use necessitate a team approach?
There was a recent blog post on Reed Construction Data by Mark Mergenschroer entitled, “BIM Requires a TEAM…
News July 21ASID: Incorporating patient- and family-centered care concepts
Patient- and family-centered care is an innovative approach to the planning, delivery, and evaluation of healthcare that is…
News July 20Is modern architecture too tiresome?
Recently, heralded film critic Roger Ebert wrote an editorial for the Chicago Sun-Times titled, “The image of a…
News July 14ASID: Addition by subtraction
Healthcare spaces easily become saturated with “stuff: halls crowded with stretchers and wheelchairs; walls covered in handrails, bumper…
News July 13