by Jennifer Silvis | Sep 12, 2014 | Trends
In a review of any body of work, there’s an obvious value to the patterns and themes that start to emerge and paint a picture of whatever it is that’s being studied.For this year’s Healthcare Design Showcase, when our multidisciplinary panel of 25...
by Anne DiNardo | Sep 12, 2014 | Trends
After studies showed the positive effects of daylighting in healing environments, designers began introducing large windows with views to the outdoors in patient rooms and waiting areas. As the practice grew, family respite areas and staff spaces eventually saw the...
by Jennifer Silvis | Sep 11, 2014 | Trends
The 2014 Healthcare Design Showcase jury tapped three projects among the 100 submitted to be recognized with an Honorable Mention award. They are each unique in their challenges, and the results of the design solutions identified by their design teams—as well as...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Sep 11, 2014 | Trends
Award winners or not, the Healthcare Design Showcase projects offered a wealth of smart design ideas in their program submissions. Here we highlight some noteworthy details that our jurors singled out for a special hat-tip. Click on the image at left to scroll through...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Sep 11, 2014 | Trends
For the first time in the 14 years we’ve been doing the Healthcare Design Showcase, our Award of Merit winners come exclusively from outside the U.S. That’s not to say there isn’t great working happening here—there is, and you’ll find...
by Anne DiNardo | Sep 10, 2014 | Trends
At 742,000 square feet, it would be hard to miss South West Acute Hospital. And yet Showcase jurors couldn’t help but comment on how “authentically human,” “intimate,” and “reminiscent of a village” the greenfield project...
by Anne DiNardo | Sep 9, 2014 | Trends
In this series, Healthcare Design asks leading healthcare design professionals, firms, and owners to tell us what’s got their attention and share some ideas on the subject.Rives Taylor is an architect and principal at Gensler (Houston), where he helps lead the...
by Anne DiNardo | Sep 9, 2014 | Trends
Working with Chris O’Brien Lifehouse (Camperdown, Australia), HDR Rice Daubney sought to create a comprehensive nonprofit cancer center in Sydney that would fulfill the vision of the late Chris O’Brien, a professor and medical oncologist who died of a...
by Jennifer Silvis | Sep 8, 2014 | Trends
Every new concept that wows an industry eventually reaches the day when its application isn’t as exciting as it once was—when it’s no longer labeled as innovative. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing, especially if that concept held enough...
by Anne DiNardo | Sep 5, 2014 | Trends
One of the reasons I love covering this industry is that the people that I get to interview—architects, interior designers, planners, and owners—are so passionate about their work and their efforts to use design to help others.Thankfully that work...
