Building trust

I’ve gone through some enlightening experiences recently, all revolving around the issue of trust. Specifically, via various article proposals, interviews, and conference visits, I’ve taken a tour of the arcane world of design documents. Even more...

Rethinking the future of medicine

Project Summary Project Completion Date: June 2008Owner/Client: University of California, Los Angeles Executive Architect: Perkins+Will (Eric Van Aukee, AIA, LEED AP, Managing Principal; Gabrielle A. Bullock, AIA, NOMA, LEED AP, Principal, Project Manager; Jean Mah,...

The greening of a critical access hospital

If you have driven through the Midwest, you have seen dozens of towns similar to Greensburg, Kansas. The main streets of these towns are lined with historic buildings that a generation ago housed thriving businesses that were the backbone of the local economy. Their...

Coming Together

It is one thing to have a traditional multispecialty hospital. It is quite another to have a multispecialty unit. But that is what the LifeBridge Health System’s Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, achieved recently when it assembled the various specialty...

St. Francis' Wolf Gallery: A green facelift

Jan Marion, owner and founder of H. Marion Framing Studio, understands that green design involves more than just meeting the latest industry standards. “First and foremost, the design must look good. It’s like if you’re eating health food; it’s got...

Defining evidence-based design

I love words. I have for a very long time. As a kid, trips to the library held a certain kind of wonderment for me. Rows and rows of neatly aligned books just there for the taking with the show of a card, and that distinctive sound of the date-stamp on the card that...

An urban high-rise makes green dollars and sense

At first glance you wouldn’t take the building to be: (1) a senior living community or (2) an exemplar of “green” construction. The building, a towering 30-story high-rise in the heart of urban Portland, Oregon, is called Mirabella at South Waterfront. Not only...

Should we go online all the way?

You may have noticed that our most recent online poll is asking for your preferences—specifically, going forward, would you like the information you get from us to be online only, a mix of online and print, or print only? Needless to say, like every other traditional...
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