by HCD Guest Author | Nov 1, 2005 | News
It always starts this way—with great hope, unbridled enthusiasm, and imaginative artists’ renderings. All of the input sessions and planning meetings, developed and discarded design concepts, conventional wisdom, and new-to-the-world thinking have come to this...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 1, 2005 | News
Project Summary Project Client: The Gathering Place Landscape Architecture: Virginia Burt (Visionscapes), collaborating with MSI Landscape Architects Photography: Marc Golub Photography Completed: May 2005 Total Project Area (sq. ft.): One-third acre Total Cost:...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 1, 2005 | News
Several decades of managed care and evolving technology have dramatically reduced the number of inpatient beds in U.S. hospitals. The result is an inadequate capacity to provide medical care to large numbers of patients should a man-made or natural disaster occur. On...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 1, 2005 | News
Project Summary Architecture: Lighthouse Architects, 527 Architects Construction Management: McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. MEP Engineering: C&R Mechanical Co., Guarantee Electrical Co., Grasse Services, Inc. Landscape Architecture: SWT Associates Photography:...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 1, 2005 | Trends
Is I write this we are approaching the opening day for HEALTHCARE DESIGN.05, our third annual conference, which runs from November 6-9 in Scottsdale, Arizona. It will come as a surprise to no one that recently we carefully reviewed our registrant listings to see which...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 1, 2005 | News
Hospitals are discovering a new customer base: visitors and employees who previously went off-site for their café lattes and panini sandwiches. These people constitute a captive audience that wants something different, and they are willing to pay a higher price for...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 1, 2005 | News
I recently attended a presentation by Cynthia Leibrock, MA, ASID, Hon. IIDA, in San Francisco that addressed the unique design needs of different healthcare populations. It started me thinking about the opportunity each and every one of us involved in creating the...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 1, 2005 | News
How does one move a high-tech cancer treatment center, complete with linear accelerator, from an overcrowded hospital basement to a classic residential neighborhood without driving the neighbors away? That was the challenge faced by Shore Memorial Hospital in the...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 1, 2005 | News
Recliner/sleeper chair ZZZZZ from Elements of Care provides the options of a chair, a recliner with ottoman, or a bed with the push of a button or flip of the wrist. The back reclines to any position via a pneumatic piston; an optional storage ottoman slides out from...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2005 | Uncategorized
(Excerpted from Charles Jencks’s essay, “Maggie Centres and the Architectural Placebo,” to be published in the forthcoming book The Architecture in Hospitals in November 2005, NAi Publishers, The Netherlands. With permission.) My own scepticism on architectural...
