by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2005 | News
Banners and sunscreens Rainier can provide fabric displays for any environment. Unique print or appliqué banners of any size or shape provide wayfinding; AdShades serve simultaneously as sunscreens and advertising. The company provided Virginia Mason, a Seattle...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2005 | News
Many architects and their clients share a common lament: “The building didn’t turn out the way we hoped.” While the usual list of suspects—budget, time frame, operational requirements, regulations, team dynamics, and (my personal favorite) impracticality—are...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2005 | News
In 1991 I began creating what I call Solar Spectrum Environmental Artworks, using prisms and mirrors to harness the sun’s power to create rainbows in architectural spaces where people live and work. Four years later I asked the great American scientist Dr. Jonas...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2005 | News
As the operating costs of medical office buildings (MOBs) continue to rise, creating an efficient MOB can help control expenses, as well as make life easier for patients and physicians. When planning an MOB for optimal efficiency and function, the first step is to...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2005 | News
When a renowned children’s hospital seeks to expand its market, it shouldn’t be surprising when it does so in spectacular fashion. The Seattle-based Children’s Hospital & Regional Medical Center was already well established in the...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2005 | News
Imagine a cancer center constructed without materials that contain known human carcinogens, or a hospital that serves organic food and meat without added antibiotics. These are among the more than 160 strategies that define a new age of “high-performance healing...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2005 | News
The need for complicated, lifesaving services often drives the shape and layout of healthcare buildings. In contrast, parking structures are staid and solid and are at their best when they go unnoticed. Because of the utilitarian nature of parking structures, they are...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2005 | News
For years Erminia (Mimi) Guarneri, MD, has, like Don Quixote, been battling windmills. Frustrated by the limitations of conventional medicine in keeping her cardiology patients from returning for yet another balloon angioplasty or stent, she knew there had to be a...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2005 | News
Philosophy The guiding research and educational philosophy of Texas A&M University’s Architecture for Health program, which was established in 1966, is for its students and faculty to undertake actual case-study projects with clients who have real needs,...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2005 | News
How often does one see a family tragedy transformed into a project aimed at uplifting the lives of thousands of children and their families? In Valhalla, New York (Westchester County), just such a project opened its doors last year. The Maria Fareri Children’s...
