Life And Afterlife by Jen Renzi - 02/01/2008
When Jörg Aldinger entered a competition to design a hospice for the Katholische Gesamtkirchengemeinde, the Catholic church of Stuttgart, Germany, he searched in vain for existing models. "We discovered there were no new-build hospices anywhere in Europe," he says. "There was no archetype to guide us. More
Special Delivery by Jen DeRose - 02/01/2008
When Michael Sieger's daughter was born in an 1852 hospital in Münster, Germany, the managing director of Sieger Design immediately noticed the outdated facilities. "I couldn't believe anybody could begin to feel better in such a cold and uncomfortable atmosphere," he says. Known for luxury goods manufactured under the name Sieger—from 24-karat gold-plated goblets to sumptuous silk t...
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A Beacon Of Healing by Edie Cohen - 02/01/2008
"We've been doing hospitals since 1943, when the firm started," NBBJ partner Richard Dallam says. And they've remained a strong point. The ground-up E.W. and Mary Firstenburg Tower, phase one of a renewal project at Southwest Washington Medical Center in Vancouver, is the firm's latest tour de force.
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Go Ducks, Go by C.C. Sullivan - 01/01/2008
Sidelined by injury, not even the most elite of college athletes expect too much. The young stars, relegated to over-lit basement training rooms, suffer decor as punishing as sprained ankles and pulled hamstrings. Not so at the University of Oregon. The scenic Eugene campus now boasts a spalike sanctuary of sports healing.
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Ballinger Deborah Wilk - 12/01/2007
Drawing on industry research indicating that good design fosters good health as well as stress relief and a heightened quality of patient care, principals Eric Swanson and Louis Meilink teamed up with Polshek Partnership Architects to tackle the design of a 330,000-square-foot, 15-floor clinical facility for Weill Cornell Medical College.
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Thinking Outside The Box by Susan Welsh - 11/01/2007
Guy's Hospital is one of London's most important and most historic medical establishments, but its 1970's building couldn't be more nondescript. Confronted with the task of making the main entrance look distinguished, anybody besides Thomas Heatherwick might have delivered a result that was merely less nondescript.
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Heaven Can Wait by Mairi Beautyman - 11/01/2007
Waiting isn't exactly heavenly. Unless, perhaps, it's being done at Wittlinger Hahn Stern Radiologie in the southwestern German city of Schorndorf. To create the illusion of natural light in the center's windowless main waiting area, Ippolito Fleitz Group snapped a shot of dramatic clouds, converted it into two black-and-white photomurals, and mounted them on backlit canvas.
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Hale And Hearty by Laura Girmscheid and Sheila Kim-Jamet - 11/01/2007
Design is a healing tool. According to research conducted for the 2007 list of the top Interior Design Giants in health care, decision-makers for medical facilities continue to recognize this fact—the numbers don't lie. These 40 firms reported a 4 percent increase in health-care design fees for a total of more than $359 million over the period from July 2006 through June 2007; 5,116 proje...
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Design Green Emily Pilloton, Eco Contributor, July 27, 2008 Designs for Dignity
So much of interior design caters to those with robust checkbooks, but here's an ... More
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