All Features articles – Page 220
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FeaturesProduct news
This month1. Follow the rainbow Marmoleum by Forbo Nairn has been used at Warrington Hospital by AustinSmith:Lord. Bespoke designs of birds and rainbows, produced using the company’s Aquajet technology, were used in the paediatric area. Inlaid borders were used throughout and differing colours indicate departments and public routes. Marmoleum ...
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FeaturesSupplier interview
‘The idea of using silver to kill bacteria isn’t a new one’ Sarah Spink, Liquid Plastics Hygiene Market Manager
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FeaturesEnvironmental health professor Richard Jackson
‘Architects like evidence to support what they know intuitively’
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FeaturesNewcomers to create ‘healing environments’
“Why is it that most existing healthcare facilities make people feel sick even if they are well?” asks Dr Ali Parsi, founder of Health Properties Limited.
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FeaturesStylish council’s low-rise legacy
Date October 1981Location Islington, LondonArchitect Islington councilUnlike neighbouring Hackney or Tower Hamlets, the London Borough of Islington never went down the high-rise route, and instead set about commissioning some of the country’s best housing architects to replace its massive slums, some with densities of over 250 people per hectare. By ...
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FeaturesCan private clients restore hospital design to health?
Whenever a new healthcare building is praised for good design, the unspoken addendum of “good for healthcare” is left hanging in the air.
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FeaturesSmartening up PFI budgets
Architect NBBJ is client design adviser to the North Bristol NHS Trust, using the RIBA’s smart PFI model to develop outline designs for Southmead Hospital in-house before the project goes out to tender.
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FeaturesBlowing hot and cold
Timber adds warmth at GHA’s 2004 Community Centre for Health, but a draught problem chills the atmosphere. Architects Gareth Hoskins and Clare Kemsley drop in.
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FeaturesIs culture or environment to blame for sickness in the NHS?
The National Health Service: much praised around the world, but never copied. But at least we lead the world in irony.
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FeaturesHealing artists
Award-winning healthcare projects at Gareth Hoskins Architects’ are close design relatives to its arts buildings. And why, the practice asks, should it be any other way?
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Features‘‘Approach it in the same way as any public building”
Established practice Bauman Lyons has its first built health centre, but needs insider knowledge to navigate the NHS to further success. Murphy Philipps is there to help. To put your own question to Philipps fill out the comment box at the end of this story
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FeaturesBDP and Groupe6 join forces overseas
Healthcare opportunities in emerging markets within the expanded EU and northern Africa will be the initial targets for bdpgroupe6, a new company with international aspirations launched by BDP and its French associate practice, Groupe6.
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The numbers game: 23,000...
...people will live in the proposed Medical City at Dongtan, the eco-city to be built on an island in the Yangste river in China.
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FeaturesKevin Carmody and Andy Groarke
The former David Chipperfield staffers have just come second place in the Prague library competition, won by Future Systems this week. Still less than a year old, their practice Carmody Groarke already has a growing portfolio of challenging projects.
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FeaturesWe leave tomorrow...
I will endeavour to update you from France, technology permitting. The current total I've either collected or been pledged is about £6,000, thanks in great part to the generosity of Foster + Partners.This is in collaboration with Christopher Vause, a property finance lawyer at Maclay Murray and Spens; much of ...