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2012 Top 100 Giants
Staff, January 1, 2012
This was the year the firms in Interior Design’s top 100 Giants list confounded the pundits, not to mention themselves.
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Into the Blue
Laura Fisher Kaiser, February 1, 2011

"One time, my doctor referred me to a specialist, and I walked in the door and saw the place was a dump," Andreas Charalambous says. "I just turned around and walked out." More
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AIA Honors Duda/Paine for Duke Integrative Medicine
Nicholas Tamarin, May 11, 2010
The American Institute of Architects is bestowing its annual National Design Award for Health Care on the Durham, North Carolina architecture firm for Duke University Health System building. More
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The Learning Curve
Deborah Wilk, May 1, 2010

Educational, medical, and office design reaches new heights More
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Healing Property
Craig Kellogg, May 1, 2010
Bloomingdale's, Giorgio Armani, and Catherine Malandrino aren't the only major imports at the Burj Khalifa, the 2,600-foot-tall United Arab Emirates tower formerly known as the Burj Dubai. More
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Anshen + Allen Turns Containers Into Clinics
Nicholas Tamarin, March 25, 2010
The San Francisco-based international architecture firm is collaborating with the non-profit foundation Containers 2 Clinics and modular builder Stack Design Build to convert old shipping containers into preventive care units for poor and rural communities. More
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Style is The Best Medicine
Craig Kellogg, February 1, 2010
If you happen to be walking around Belgrade, you may pass more than a dozen branches of the Oasis of Health, an upstart pharmacy chain that has grown steadily in and around the Serbian capital. More
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They're All Smiles
Edie Cohen, February 1, 2010
Pediatric dentist Amand Begian was looking for more than just an office when he leased space in a typical Southern California strip mall in the city of Oxnard. He needed branding, too... More
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The Family Business
Benjamin Budde, February 1, 2010
How olde-timey can a medical facility be? At Dental Care Ishii, the answer is: very. Located in the mountain town of Sasayama, 30 miles west of Japan's historic capital, Kyoto, the facility occupies the 90-year-old two-story house where dentist Hironobu Ishii's great-grandfather lived and practiced internal medicine. More
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Parsons Provides Inspiration for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Alternate Design Models
Staff, January 12, 2010
The New York design school has entered into an external partnership project with the world’s largest private cancer treatment and research institution to create design proposals for facilities that change the way patients experience chemotherapy. More
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Interior Design Top Magazine Stories of 2009
Staff, December 28, 2009
After years in a lavish house in Greenwich, Connecticut, two soon-to-be empty nesters heeded the urging of their children and decided to return to Manhattan in what their architect, Steven Learner, calls an "incredibly brave" leap of faith... More
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National Office Furniture Offers $25,000 to a Lucky Healthcare Environment
November 13, 2009
Fresh from flashing their eco-conscious design Greenbuild, National Office Furniture is demonstating their commitment to environmental design user experience by announcing its $25,000 Gift of Inspiration for Healthcare Environments. More
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Public Options—Private, Too: Healthcare Giants
Deborah Wilk, November 1, 2009
Among the many crucial issues crowding the political stage, one of the most volatile is health care. Regardless of one's stance on reform, the topic has long been a focus of the top Interior Design Giants, which have watched the category grow substantially in recent years. More
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Chicago Bulldozes Gropius Campus Despite Losing Olympics
From The Architects' Journal, October 28, 2009
The Michael Reese Hosptial campus by Bauhaus pioneer Walter Gropius, upon which city officials planned to erect an Olympic Village, is undergoing demolition even after Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid was denied. More
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Steelcase Opens First Nurture Showroom in New York
Nicholas Tamarin, August 17, 2009
The office furniture manufacturer has debuted its first full-scale healthcare showroom in New York, located at 4 Columbus Circle. More
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Winners Named for AIA's National Healthcare Design Awards
Nicholas Tamarin, August 6, 2009
Five firms took home the American Institute of Architects Academy of Architecture for Health's honors for top healthcare building design and design-oriented research. More
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Momentum Textiles Introduces Recycled Polyester Fabrics
Nicholas Tamarin, June 25, 2009
The two new privacy curtain fabrics, Betula and Perennial, feature Unifi's Repreve, the first 100 percent recycled polyester yarn with inherent flame-retardant properties. More
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Northwestern Health-Care Facility Wins Vista Award
Nicholas Tamarin, April 16, 2009
Sacred Heart Medical Center in Springfield, Oregon was recognized by the American Society of Healthcare Engineering for teamwork in health-care design. More
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A Healthy Dose of Design
Sheila Kim-Jamet, February 1, 2009
While 2008 may have been a less-than-banner year for many businesses, health-care design still provided a good source of revenue, what with technology advancing, boomers aging, and facilities getting overcrowded. Witness the 49 Giants that did work in the health-care sector last year. More
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Interior Design Best of Year Awards Wrap Up at the Guggenheim
Laurel Petriello, December 8, 2008
The magazine presented 64 awards at the third annual Best of Year Awards at New York's Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum on December 4. More