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Healthcare Architecture
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A Behavioral Health Hospital Takes Cues from Nature
CannonDesign incorporated the ideas of 19th century reformer Moses Sheppard to design a new psychiatric hospital.
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Mark Cavagnero Associates Slathers Sunscreen on a San Francisco Medical Building
The new Weill Neurosciences Building at UCSF deploys an elegant sun shade to minimize glare and heat while optimizing views and providing occupants with natural light.
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More Hospitals Confront Climate Change — Slowly.
Healthcare facilities are adding solar panels and cutting waste, with support from a new office at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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A Cancer Care Center Built to Weather the Elements
With a resilient design strategy harnessing responsive architecture, Perkins Eastman and Ennead Architects' David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care asks “why can’t hospital design be more intuitive?”
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Alda Ly Is Raising the Bar for What Healthcare Should Look and Feel Like
A new health and wellness center in Manhattan takes cues from hospitality design.
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Kaiser Permanente and CannonDesign Imagine a Medical School that Prioritizes Student Life
Pasadena's Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine integrates well-being and holistic healthcare with an emphasis on social justice.
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Game Changers 2020: Diana Anderson and General Architecture Collaborative on Wellness and Community
Next in our annual Game Changers series, Diana Anderson and General Architecture Collaborative discuss architecture, wellness, and community, informed by their unique on-the-ground experiences, research, and hybrid roles
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With Hotel-Like Amenities, the New Stanford Hospital Streamlines Patient Experience
Rafael Viñoly Architects in collaboration with Perkins Eastman built a hotel-like environment for patients and families, featuring four acres of gardens with outdoor lounge areas on the roof.
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Sustainability is a Nonnegotiable at Sharon Davis’s Bayalpata Regional Hospital
The health-care center, a partnership between the government of Nepal and nonprofit Possible Health, serves an estimated 100,000 visitors a year.
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How Architecture Can Help Address America’s Mental-Health-Care Crisis
Metropolis profiles CannonDesign's behavioral-health studio—a multidisciplinary pool of in-house experts that helm projects in their highly specialized field.
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New Philadelphia Hospital Is “Better Than Most Hotels”
The project exemplifies the healthcare industry’s turn toward hospitality, here evident in a series of community spaces, landscaped gardens, and even a fireplace.
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Steven Holl’s New Maggie’s Cancer Center is a Pearl of Optimism in Uncertain Political Times
The new St. Bartholomew’s Hospital support facility, which opened Monday, is a sensitive new neighbor in a historic context.
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Prouty Garden is Slated to Be Destroyed—Will Its Legacy Be Preserved?
Boston Children’s Hospital will soon replace its beloved Prouty Garden with a rooftop greenspace roughly one-third its size—but will this new space truly be the haven patients deserve?
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This Physical-Healthcare Facility Pioneers Virtual Care
Mercy's Virtual Care Center offers a dynamic new alternative to health care, this time without beds.
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The Case for Human-Centered Healthcare Design
Humane hospital care is subverted by an outmoded practice: metrics based design.
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What Is and Is Not Biophilic Design?
If design doesn’t focus on aspects of the natural world that contribute to human health and productivity in the age-old struggle to be fit and survive, it’s not biophilic.
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Beyond Aging in Place: Urban Studies Expert Deane Simpson on the Future of Retirement
Architect and urban studies expert Deane Simpson discusses aging in place and rethinking senior citizen communities.
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Q&A: Alisdair McGregor on Diagnosing Health-Care Design
The Arup fellow and director of the UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay discusses the future of hospital design.