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Health Care
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Programs
Designing Empathy in Health Care Spaces
A Think Tank panel proposes that when it comes to designing for health care, healing begins with listening.
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Viewpoints
Examining the Intersection of Health and Design
The September/October issue of Metropolis takes a global look at how the work of architects and designers is impacting people’s health and well-being.
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Projects
The Hospital Unlocking a Design Formula for Better Family Care
Spaces that promote comfort and kinship help level up patient care at a Charleston medical facility for women and children.
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How Ghana’s Radical Experiment in Health Care Is Taking Shape
Adjaye Associates is designing 101 new district hospitals in Ghana, reimagining the healing power of design along the way.
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Profiles
3 Doctors Who Design Share What’s Energizing Health Care Architecture
Physicians with design experience dissect what is (and isn’t) working for patients, staff and facilities when it comes to offering quality care with wellness-focused benefits.
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Projects
A Medical-Center Expansion by NBBJ Embraces its Northwest Setting
The St. Michael Medical Center in Silverdale, Washington opened its ten-story, 612,000-square-foot expansion in December 2020. Commanding views of the Olympic Mountains fill patients with a sense of relief and connection
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Projects
How Maggie’s Centres Help Cancer Patients Find Strength from Within
The rapidly growing cancer care provider uses big-name architects and designers to create comfortable, hospitable spaces.
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Viewpoints
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.
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Products
Putting the Health Back Into Health-Care Textiles
Textiles are key to designing health and safety into our hospitals—and the industry is changing its thinking about how these fabrics should be made.
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Products
Parsons Design Students Provide Essential Updates to the Typical, Embarrassing Hospital Gown
The school teamed up with Care+Wear, a healthcare apparel company, to create a hospital gown that makes for a more dignified patient experience.
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Navigating the Health-Care Trends of the 21st Century
As part of the Metropolis Think Tank series, Susan S. Szenasy talks to HKS, Inc., Kaiser Permanente, and Children’s Medical Center of Dallas about the shifts occurring in the health-care industry.
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Projects
What’s the Dean of Healthcare Design Doing in Silicon Valley?
What’s the dean of health-care design doing in Silicon Valley? Attempting to revolutionize the way hospitals are designed and built.