The Problem with the “Designification” of Health Care
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?
Healthcare
7 Projects That Signal The Rise of Haute Health Care
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.
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.
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.
When Architecture Became Healthy: Examining More than 100 Years of Design and Wellness
A new show, on view at London’s healthcare-focused gallery, the Wellcome Collection, chronicles the history of the built environment and our wellbeing.
Steven Holl Architects Designs Colorful HQ for Doctors without Borders
Featuring multi-colored volumes of photovoltaic glass, the new facility will reflect the organization’s global outlook while raising the bar for environmental standards.
Could Sewage Sensors Help Us Address the Opioid Crisis?
A new start-up believes that wastewater analysis could empower cities to proactively tackle the opioid epidemic.
Design Students Take on Universal Design
Research at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design is transforming the practice—and the very definition—of universal design.
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.
What I Learned While Building a House in Rwanda
Working with MASS Design Group in Rwanda Michelle Benoit learns about more than just architecture.
Creative Deficiency
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?
What's It Like to Be an Illustrator for the Mayo Clinic
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.…
