Health

Photos reveal new children’s hospital by Renzo Piano under construction in Uganda

April 5, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
Milan Design Week: Emergency's Centre of Excellence in Paediatric Surgery by Renzo Piano BUilding Workshop

Italian architect Renzo Piano is building a major new health facility, the Centre of Excellence in Paediatric Surgery, in Uganda. Renzo Piano Building Workshop has unveiled photographs of the new children’s hospital, which is currently under construction in Entebbe, on the banks of Lake Victoria. The project, set to be the studio’s first in Africa, is

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White Arkitekter develops maternity unit concept for hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo

February 21, 2019 India Block 0
Panzi Hospital mother and baby unit concept by White Arkitekter

White Arkitekter has created a concept for a new mother and baby health unit at the Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Swedish architecture studio has designed the maternity unit as an extension to the Panzi Hospital, which was founded in 1999 by Denis Mukwege – recipient of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize

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Earthy and homey details feature in New York clinic Parsley Health by Alda Ly

February 12, 2019 Jenna McKnight 0
Parsley Health by Alda Ly

White-wash walls and greenery are intended to create a relaxing atmosphere at this doctor’s office and clinic in New York, designed by Alda Ly Architecture for a startup company that takes an alternative approach to healthcare. The Parsley Health NYC Flagship Center is located inside a 115-year-old tower in Manhattan’s Union Square neighbourhood. Measuring 5,500 square

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Ater Architects creates a friendly interior for a children’s clinic in Kiev

January 15, 2019 Ali Morris 0
Interiors of Doctor U clinic designed by Ater Architects

Bright colours and simple geometric forms feature in this children’s outpatient clinic in Kiev by local practice Ater Architects. Called Doctor U, the two-room 38 square metre facility is located in a new residential complex in the city. Ater Architects set out to create a friendly environment for young visitors that would turn a trip

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Snøhetta completes wooden Outdoor Care Retreats at two Norwegian hospitals

January 9, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
Outdoor Care Retreats by Snøhetta in Norway

Two matching elevated cabins have been nestled into a woodland by Snøhetta, to improve the treatment of patients at two of Norway’s largest hospitals by immersing them in nature. Commissioned by Friluftssykehuset Foundation, the Outdoor Care Retreats offer “physical and psychological respite” for patients, and are designed by Snøhetta to contrast with the two hospitals. The first cabin is situated

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CO Architects creates highly transparent Health Education Building in Kansas

December 11, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

A glazed box revealing floors wrapped in a terracotta screen forms part of this new academic facility, designed by CO Architects for a university in Kansas City. Built on the site of a former parking lot, the Health Education Building is located on a prominent corner in the University of Kansas Medical Center campus –

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TBA’s vet surgery in Montreal includes exposed bricks and concrete

November 29, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

Industrial finishes “resistant to animal wear and tear” are used across this veterinary clinic, which occupies the ground and basement floors of an extended building in Montreal. Thomas Balaban Architect (TBA) completed the renovation and extension of a two-storey photography studio, turning it into a four-storey structure that houses four apartments and the Hôpital Vétérinaire

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Making “the healthy choice the default choice” will encourage wellbeing in the workplace

November 16, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

Companies can gain a competitive advantage by designing workplaces that make wellbeing a default choice, argue the authors of The Healthy Workplace Nudge book in a talk Dezeen hosted with Haworth in Chicago. Architects and interior designers should be creating workplaces that nudge people into having healthy behaviour, says Dr Michael O’Neill, an expert on the

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Wulf Architekten brightens German disease research centre with Velux skylights

October 30, 2018 Dezeen staff 0

Dezeen promotion: Wulf Architekten has used Velux’s modular skylights at a research centre in western Germany, to flood its entrance and oval-shaped laboratory building with natural light. The German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases – abbreviated to DZNE – is situated in the city of Bonn. It is one of ten centres spread across Germany, where scientists

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