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.
The high-tech film is hyper durable, easy to clean, and can be applied to almost any surface, increasing the life of materials while reducing contamination.
As the coronavirus has shuttered cities and immobilized citizens, manufacturers have found ways to offer support to vulnerable populations and provide free protective gear to medical professionals.
The health-care center, a partnership between the government of Nepal and nonprofit Possible Health, serves an estimated 100,000 visitors a year.
3D printed face shields, hospital conversions, material donations, and deployable intensive care units are just some ways architects are stepping up during the pandemic.
With clever spatial arrangements and distinctive materials, HDR transformed a Sports Authority in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood into an outpatient clinic.
A new wave of clinics is using design to attract patients frustrated with old-guard medical facilities. But is further commodification of health care the answer?
A millennial wave of health care interior design is sweeping the world, bringing the comfort and style of restaurants and clubs to everything from primary care clinics to dentist's offices.
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.
The design of this new Austin, Texas, medical training facility encourages academic excellence with spaces for collaboration.
Metropolis profiles CannonDesign's behavioral-health studio—a multidisciplinary pool of in-house experts that helm projects in their highly specialized field.
Metropolis's latest Think Tank event, held at the Boston offices of HDR, addressed how architecture and design professionals can design for humanity.
A new show, on view at London’s healthcare-focused gallery, the Wellcome Collection, chronicles the history of the built environment and our wellbeing.
Featuring multi-colored volumes of photovoltaic glass, the new facility will reflect the organization’s global outlook while raising the bar for environmental standards.
A new start-up believes that wastewater analysis could empower cities to proactively tackle the opioid epidemic.
Research at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design is transforming the practice—and the very definition—of universal design.
A comprehensive, ongoing research effort, involving architects, designers, health-care professionals, and more than 30 manufacturers, has resulted in Patient Room 2020.
Working with MASS Design Group in Rwanda Michelle Benoit learns about more than just architecture.
We spend more than $20 billion a year on the design and construction of new health-care facilities in the United States. And yet, from a design perspective, the vast majority of these projects are banal, at best. Why is the bar set so low for hospital design?
In the seven weeks since I started my Maharam STEAM Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation. I've been asked that question by a lot of people. The good news is, I’m finding new answers to it every day.…
