A Healthy Dialogue: Putting Interiors and Exteriors in Conversation in Healthcare
Susan S. Szenasy talked to members of the Miami office of Perkins+Will about the mutually supportive role interior and exterior spaces play in healthcare environments.
Healthcare Interiors
This Physical-Healthcare Facility Pioneers Virtual Care
Mercy's Virtual Care Center offers a dynamic new alternative to health care, this time without beds.
Why Light Matters: Designing with Circadian Health in Mind
ZGF Architects outlines six vital principles to follow when designing spaces that support circadian health.
The Changing Needs of Caregivers, Patients, and Families in Healthcare Design
Metropolis Think Tank visits WHR Architects and healthcare experts to discuss the process of designing healthy environments for patients, their families, and clinicians alike.
New York's Newest Planned Parenthood Center Is a Template for Future Clinics
Emphasizing transparency and permanence, a new Planned Parenthood in Queens, N.Y., hopes to be a replicable template for future clinics.
The Case for Human-Centered Healthcare Design
Humane hospital care is subverted by an outmoded practice: metrics based design.
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.
How Do We Design for More Holistic Health-Care Practices?
The design director of Perkins+Will Miami on how architects can help lead a new era of integrated and pluralistic approaches to wellness
Let the Sunshine In: Access to Nature is Vital to Our Health-Care System
Access to nature is vital to our health-care system.
In Brisbane, An Innovative Laboratory Complex Is Home to Pioneering Medical Research
To facilitate collaboration, the Translational Research Institute puts sunlight and green space at its heart.
Four Healthcare Products Tough Enough for Hospitals
Top hospital designers pick new and innovative products.
Kickstarting Fiber Optic Art for Healing Environments
Product designer Lyn Godley explores the potential of a thousand points of light for healing environments
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.
How MASS Design Group Applies Developing-World Lessons to U.S. Hospitals
MASS Design Group takes the health-care lessons learned in the developing world to regulation-bound U.S. hospitals.
Flexible Pharma
At Pfizer’s new research lab, innovative drug development is made possible by adaptable design.
Designing Hospitals in Asia With Cultural Sensitivity
How can architects expand Western science and medicine into parts of the world with different cultural and traditional values? Western designers have been designing healthcare facilities across the world since colonial times. For centuries, the flow of medical knowledge…
Bill Thomas: The Nursing Home Abolitionist
For decades the popular image of the typical nursing home has been one of confinement—a sort of hybrid hospital/prison. It features zonked-out old people tied to wheelchairs nodding off in long, featureless corridors or crying out for help from steel-framed…
Places that Work: A Generative Space
Wilson Hospice House, designed by Perkins + Will, won the 2011 Caritas Project’s Generative Space Award. It is definitely a space that works. The recognition the hospice has received is appropriate because its design has a special psychological effect on…
Bedside Manner 101
Stanford University’s new medical school, designed by NBBJ, places a premium on hands-on learning and the cultivation of “people skills” often sadly lacking in doctors everywhere.
