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.
Healthcare Architecture
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.
Future100: A New Generation of Designers Is Rethinking Elder Care Environments
Students envision senior living solutions that better support autonomy, physical wellbeing and mental health.
Hack Care Is a New and Improved Guide to Dementia-Friendly Design
Lekker Architects and Studio Lanzavecchia + Wai have created a free and downloadable toolkit for providing better dementia care.
A Danish Hospital Gets a Light-Filled Addition
Replete with light and art, the North Wing of the Rigshospitalet medical complex offers a vision for the future of health care.
A Breakthrough in Biophilic Lighting Design
LIGHTGLASS offers the first practical solution to bring the experience of daylight to windowless spaces.
A New Model for High End Health Care
Using innovative technology and personalized branding, hybrid design studio Cactus blurs the line between hospitals and health spas.
A New Line of Textiles Seek to Make Hospitals Healthier
With increased cleanability and silver ion anti-microbial technology, Ensemble from Arc-Com supports healthier hospitals initiative.
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 as designers.
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.
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.
5 Ways Architects and Designers are Responding to COVID-19
3D printed face shields, hospital conversions, material donations, and deployable intensive care units are just some ways architects are stepping up during the pandemic.
A Big-Box Store Finds New Life as a Healthcare Clinic
With clever spatial arrangements and distinctive materials, HDR transformed a Sports Authority in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood into an outpatient clinic.
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…
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.
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.
With Healthcare Architecture, Building Full-Scale Mockups Spurs Fresh Approaches to Design
A Metropolis Think Tank panel, held at Payette in Boston, highlighted how building bigger prototypes and mockups can make all the difference.
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.
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.
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.
