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...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2005 | Uncategorized
Project category: New construction (completed March 2005)Chief administrator/CEO: Leah A. CarpenterFirm: Gresham, Smith and Partners, (954) 981-9100Design team: Edward L. Hengtgen, AIA, NCARB, Principal-in-Charge; Luis J. Cano, Project Manager; Mindy Graves, IIDA,...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2005 | Uncategorized
A hospital is a complex structure from an affective and relational point of view, where patients’ and staff members’ sensitivity to the effects of environmental quality are heightened. A project should try to reduce the typical depersonalization patients...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2005 | Uncategorized
Project category: New construction (completed February 2005) Chief administrator: William Giermak, CEO, (757) 622-2208 Firm: Paul Finch & Associates, PC, (757) 471-0537 Design team: Paul G. Finch, AIA, ACHA, NCARB, Principal-in-Charge, Quality Control; Joseph H....
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2005 | Trends
As I traveled through the Merchandise Mart during NeoCon in June, I was reminded of the special privileges being in the design profession offers. Discreet signs in some showroom windows clearly noted, “To the Trade Only,” meaning access to knowledge about specialty...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2005 | Uncategorized
This 52-bed LDPP program is housed on one floor along with a 24-bed NICU on a site 50 feet below the diagnostic level. The project includes a new education center, surgery waiting area, and expansion of the cancer program. The solution for the Birthing Center...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2005 | Uncategorized
Project category: New construction (completed February 2005) Chief administrator: Brad Shockley, Vice-President, Denton Investors Limited Partnership, (858) 456-7212 Firm: Ascension Group Architects, (817) 226-1917 Design team: Erick Westerholm, Principal-in-Charge;...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2005 | Uncategorized
The NYU Clinical Cancer Center is a new 113,000-square-foot outpatient comprehensive cancer center in a new 13-floor facility. The building allows direct access for patients to advanced research facilities, consolidates various multidisciplinary care programs, and...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2005 | Uncategorized
Project category: New construction (completed May 2004) Chief administrator: Lynn Mergen, Chief Executive Officer, (972) 963-3045 Firm: RTKL Associates, Inc., (214) 871-8877 Design team: Brad Barker, AIA, Principal-in-Charge; John Castorina, AIA, ACHA, Design Leader;...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2005 | Uncategorized
Through the artful interweaving of high-touch elements with a comprehensive menu of services, the William J. and Marian H. Busse Center for Specialty Medicine on the Northwest Community Hospital campus sets the tone for achieving measurably improved outcomes. The...
