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New York's Newest Planned Parenthood Center Is a Template

WEBEmphasizing transparency and permanence, a new Planned Parenthood in Queens, N.Y., hopes to be a replicable template for future clinics. The building that …

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This Patient Room of the Future Is Unapologetically Modern

WEBConceived during the Spartanburg project, Patient Room 2020 was born (but not ofﬁcially baptized) in 2009 with the formation of NXT Health, a nonproﬁt …

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How Maggie's Centres Help Cancer Patients Find Strength

WEBCourtesy Maggie’s Centres. While the face of cancer has changed, and so has treatment, Maggie’s has remained strikingly consistent with its founder’s vision. …

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A New Model for High End Health Care

WEBA New Model for High End Health Care. Using innovative technology and personalized branding, hybrid design studio Cactus blurs the line between hospitals and …

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Q&A: Jan Gehl on Healthy Cities and the Real Meaning of

WEBCourtesy Ursula Bach. Having been instrumental in helping Copenhagen shape its identity as the world’s most walkable city, architect and planner Jan Gehl …

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What’s the Dean of Healthcare Design Doing in Silicon Valley

WEBThe veteran health-care architect was headed to San Diego to deliver the most improbable presentation of his illustrious, six-decade-long career. For six months, …

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Alda Ly Redesigns the Health Care Experience for Women

WEBThey used a similar move when designing the 6,000-square-foot first location of Liv by Advantia Health, a women’s health care practice in downtown …

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How Do We Design Housing for Mental Health and Wellness

WEBThe quality of the interior and exterior spaces can affect the psychological state, for good or ill. The design industry can have a profound effect on the home and …

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The Healthy Materials Lab Is Redefining Sustainable Design

WEBThe Healthy Materials Lab is a team of more than 20 graduate students, alumni, and faculty with backgrounds in architecture, design, community development, …

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Can Architecture and Design Facilitate Healing

WEBCan Architecture and Design Facilitate Healing? Through a new book and exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, MASS Design Group …

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Putting the Health Back Into Health-Care Textiles

WEBTextiles are key to designing health and safety into our hospitals—and the industry is changing its thinking about how these fabrics should be made. 1. …

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Today's Recreation Center Design Taps Into Key Wellness Pillars

WEBNestled in Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park, a 1,000-acre urban woodland, the Cahill Fitness and Wellness Center is operated by the Baltimore City Department of …

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How New Wellness Standards Are Reshaping Architecture

WEBCriteria: The WELL standard evaluates buildings according to seven concepts—air, water, nourishment, light, fitness, comfort, and mind—that are considered …

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A Behavioral Health Hospital Takes Cues from Nature

WEBSheppard Pratt’s new Baltimore/Washington Behavioral Health Hospital by CannonDesign opened in 2021, but the ideas for the project had been germinating for …

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Designing for Equity and Well-Being in the COVID-19 Era

WEBEven before the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent stay at home orders, arguments for wellness-driven interior design were commonplace, anchored in the …

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Using Architecture to Give Cancer Patients Care and Courage

WEBThis is the central idea behind the experiment Keswick Jencks, or “Maggie,” started with her husband, architectural historian and theorist Charles Jencks, more than …

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A Clinic's Trauma-informed Design Serves LGBTQIA+ Patients

WEBTrauma-informed design (per the Trauma-informed Design Society) is an emerging and loosely defined concept that aligns design with the principles of trauma …

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The Problem with the “Designification” of Health Care

WEBOther spheres of life were designified before health care, most often through workspaces, as start-ups felt the need to capture our attention in physical space as well …

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