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Hospitals
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On Chicago’s South Side, a Bold Mixed-Use Healthcare Project Aims to Be a Community Anchor and Public Health Salve
The proposed design of the Focal Point Community Campus for the southwest side of Chicago puts health care at the center of a holistic approach to living. Quite literally, in fact. Conceived by HDR, the 33-acre mixed-use
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In the Heart of a Hospital Campus, a Ruin-Turned-Gathering Place Helps Patients Heal
Ghent-based Architecten dVVT only made light interventions to create a new multi-use common area within this early 20th century structure in the Belgian town of Melle.
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Young Patients Can Safely Explore, Play, and Learn at the Netherlands’ New Princess Máxima Center
The pediatric oncology hospital, covering 483,000 square feet across five levels, is the largest facility of its kind in Europe and one of the most unusual.
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In Austin, A New University Medical Center Stays True to its Motto: Rethink Everything
The design of this new Austin, Texas, medical training facility encourages academic excellence with spaces for collaboration.
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Architects on How the Profession Can Design Inclusive Healthcare Facilities
Metropolis's latest Think Tank event, held at the Boston offices of HDR, addressed how architecture and design professionals can design for humanity.
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This New Clinic in New York Leverages the Tools of Hospitality Design to “Feel Human”
The recently opened NewYork-Presbyterian David H. Koch Center foregrounds the patient experience, with light-filled spaces and a wealth of amenities.
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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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HMC Architects: Improving Delivery to Improve Healthcare
HMC Architects reflect on how contractor-integrated design is reviving the healthcare industry.
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Data and Intuition: How Architects Use Analytics to Make Hospitals Better
Data Visualization Helps Architects Make Better Hospitals.
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Navigating the Health-Care Trends of the 21st Century
As part of the Metropolis Think Tank series, Susan S. Szenasy talks to HKS, Inc., Kaiser Permanente, and Children’s Medical Center of Dallas about the shifts occurring in the health-care industry.
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What Happened to Patient-Centered Design?
Metropolis's editor-in-chief questions how we can connect healthcare design and nature
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This Patient Room of the Future Is Unapologetically Modern
A comprehensive, ongoing research effort, involving architects, designers, health-care professionals, and more than 30 manufacturers, has resulted in Patient Room 2020.
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A Culture of Caring
Designing hospitals in the global marketplace requires the ability to blend state-of-the-art solutions with a sensitivity to local customs, rituals, and religions.