by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2010 | News
With the Healthcare Reform Bill signed into law, hospital and medical-center administrators are scrutinizing design and construction budgets with renewed attention to the bottom line. For healthcare architects and their clients, however, this doesn’t mean a...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2010 | News
H+L Architecture, in association with Zimmer Gunsel Frasca Architects, started designing a new facility for The Children’s Hospital (TCH) at the former Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Aurora, Colorado, in 2003. This not only presented an opportunity to create...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2010 | News
Family involvement has become a major driver in improving the modern healthcare experience. Evidence-based design studies suggest that the human connection benefits the patient, the patient’s loved ones, and the clinical caregiver. The healthcare industry has...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2010 | News
The Rush University Medical Center is the largest Perkins+Will healthcare project delivered to date using a BIM Platform. It is a 14-floor, $575-million, 806,000-square-foot building with three floors devoted to surgery, imaging, and specialty procedures. The upper...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2010 | News
Frank Gehry is probably the most prominent living architect to fit the moniker of the “starchitect.” His design of the Guggenheim Museum transformed the nondescript Basque industrial town of Bilbao into a tourist attraction, and his Disney Concert Hall...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2010 | News
In a recent conversation with a peer, I was taken aback when I heard her say that places like dentist offices, eye clinics, and the like weren’t “real” healthcare facilities. Where else would such buildings be categorized? Inspired by this conversation, this...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2010 | News
Architectural glass Skyline Design’s 12 new patterns in kid’s glass art collection encourage interactivity and creative play. “Try-on” different hairstyles by peeking though artwork on eco-etch translucent glass panels. Complete a Maze, or Connect The Dots...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2010 | News
We shape our buildings, and afterwards, our buildings shape us.” (Churchill, 1943). This is a concept that has existed for centuries, yet to this day many healthcare executives are still realizing the shortcomings of the built environment after the building is in use....
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2010 | News
Interior designers being described as “cushion plumpers”? I can only imagine how Jain Malkin, Tama Duffy Day, or Betsy Brawley would react. Their stirring creative work has been published in several issues of HEALTHCARE DESIGN and sister publication Long-Term Living...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2010 | News
Though a large portion of Detroit-based photographer Monte Nagler’s business is now healthcare-based, it wasn’t always that way. For years, black-and-white fine-art photography was the primary drive of Monte Nagler Photography, and it wasn’t until he...
