by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2003 | Trends
This year has seen the opening of the Brenner Children’s Hospital, a six-story vertical expansion of Wake Forest University’s Baptist Medical Center. Offering many features to enhance children’s experience in visiting and receiving treatment at the...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2003 | Trends
The term “healing garden” brings up a variety of images for most people. The understanding that gardens can support the healing process has gained widespread endorsement over the past decade. Experts who have published articles in research journals and who have...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2003 | Trends
“Design a state-of-the-art faculty dental practice with the ambience of a Ritz-Carlton Hotel”-that was the dictate of Harold Slavkin, DDS, the new dean of the University of Southern California School of Dentistry. Lured from his position as director of the National...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2003 | Trends
Glass has long been recognized as a flexible design material, enabling architects and construction companies to create “looks” from high-tech modern to low-tech naturalwith a single material. New options in energy efficiency make glass more economical than ever....
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2003 | Trends
10. “Green” building is a passing fad. Locating buildings to take advantage of solar orientation, prevailing breezes, and natural features, while using locally available natural materials, are “green-building principles” that have been practiced for centuries....
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2003 | Trends
As promised in our September 2002 annual showcase issue, HEALTHCARE DESIGN has become a quarterly publication this year. You hold in your hands the initial result of a decision to publish three regular, magazine-style issues in addition to the annual September...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2003 | Trends
In designing anything as permanent as a new structure, planners want to be as sure as possible that the building will serve its users well for years and even decades to come. The feat of prognostication, always difficult, is even more so for healthcare, where...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2003 | Trends
This well-known Chinese proverbactually it’s a Chinese curse, but as an optimist I prefer to think of it as a proverboften pops into my mind as I contemplate all that is going on in the world and in our own industry of healthcare design. We truly are living in...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2003 | Trends
Feeling as though we had inadvertently wandered onto a TV stage set for ER, a contingent of 15 architects from Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott (SBRA), primarily members of the firm’s Healthcare Practice Group, recently explored the real-life setting of an...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2003 | Trends
In the early 1930s, the construction industry considered one death per $1 million spent on construction to be the norm. Worker fatalities, though undesirable, were an accepted corollary to doing business. Some of the workers who built our nation’s most treasured...
