by HCD Guest Author | Apr 10, 2008 | News
While setting up an HCD YouTube page to host a couple videos for news and blogs here on the site, I came across this moving piece of video art. It’s a video rendering using architect Raimund Abraham’s Hospital drawings and poems. I expect that this video...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 2, 2008 | News
If something “involves firing a wooden timber at a structure using an air cannon,” I can’t help but be interested. You too, obviously! I guess everyone likes to see something getting (safely) smashed once and a while. It looks like DuPont has opened a testing center...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 31, 2008 | News
Virtual modeling for design has been used by automobile, aircraft, and spacecraft designers for decades. But when introduced to U.S. architects in the early 1990s, it was new, exciting—and a little intimidating. Architects were aware that Building Information Modeling...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 31, 2008 | News
After more than a century of innovation in children’s rehabilitation, Bloorview Kids Rehab in Toronto opened in a new, one-of-a-kind facility in 2006. Throughout the design stages for Canada’s newest and largest children’s rehabilitation hospital...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 31, 2008 | News
I personally think any story in which robots are involved is newsworthy. Maybe that’s because I’ve really always wanted to be a robot builder (I think that’s the technical name). At the same time, my generation (whatever that is) and Generation X before it think it’s...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 31, 2008 | News
Patient room casegoods The Senso and Logique collections of patient room case pieces complement Carolina’s offering of seating designed specifically for patients and families. The collections include bedside cabinets, wardrobes, media display units, overbed...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 31, 2008 | News
Clarification: Shepley Bulfinch served as Design Architect for the Bronson BirthPlace and NICU project featured in the April 2008 Pebble Report. The firm was retained by Bronson to ensure the new project was sympathetic to the design language it had established in the...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 31, 2008 | News
Denver-based photographic artist Rhonda Grimberg has always had a fondness for the healing qualities of art in healthcare. “My Signature Collections of still life and floral imagery have a soothing quality while having visual strength,” says Grimberg. “These are the...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 31, 2008 | News
Within six months of the Parker Adventist Hospital opening in Parker, Colorado, administrators noticed a significant increase in nurse turnover. The reason for the increase: the hospital’s bed units were planned as acuity-adaptable units (figure). They revised...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 31, 2008 | News
When it comes to obtaining a regulatory green light in the rule-filled world of building hospitals, a Building Information Modeling (BIM) approach can make it happen faster and with more clarity. Based on CO Architects’ ongoing experience in a pathbreaking...
