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 | Uncategorized
Construction management is a “paper-lovin’ business.” Big paper, too, with stacks of 30″ x 42″ sheets that are scrutinized, scribbled on, copied, or extracted to Excel spreadsheets for others to work from over the course of days or weeks. What if all that paper...
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...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2010 | News
Designed by Perkins+Will, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for Cancer Immunotherapeutics and Tumor Immunology is a unique piece of City of Hope, one of the nation’s leading cancer research, treatment, and education centers. Housing 119,000 square feet of...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 28, 2010 | News
I recently came across a blog post from Kaid Benfield, Director, Smart Growth Program, Washington D.C., called “I wish AIA didn’t define ‘green’ so narrowly”. The post was in response to the recent AIA awards for their top 10 green projects of 2010. His objection is...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 28, 2010 | News
Nanotechnology has a scientifically hip sound to it. The study of matter at the atomic/molecular level, nanotechnology has broad reaches across many industries, from electronics to energy, agriculture, physics, healthcare, and more. By manipulating atoms and...
