Health

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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Guillem Carrera’s care home in northern Spain encourages residents to socialise

September 14, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Architect Guillem Carrera has completed an environmentally friendly elderly care home and day centre on a wedge-shaped plot in the Spanish village of Blancafort. The passive building functions as both a residential old age home and a day centre where the retired inhabitants of Blancafort, and its neighbouring municipalities, can come to socialise. Spanish architect Carrera ensured

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Warrior One yoga studio uses textured surfaces to reference the nearby sea

September 5, 2018 Katie de Klee 0

Design studio Golden has incorporated a textured sisal ceiling and a muted palette of colours to create a connection to the sea, for Warrior One’s second yoga studio in Melbourne. The ocean and the coastline informed the materials and colour palette in the interior of the yoga studio in the coastal suburb of Mordialloc. Golden aimed to create

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Maternity facility in rural Uganda is entirely self-sustaining

August 23, 2018 India Block 0

HKS Architects and Engineers for Overseas Development have built a maternity unit in Uganda, using local materials, skills and technology to create a sustainable facility. The 275-square-metre Kachumbala Maternity Unit, which opened six months ago, can accommodate up to six births a day and offers hugely improved aftercare facilities to the town of Kachumbala. The building replaces

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Ruth Pearn envisions public bathhouse to fight period poverty in Yorkshire

August 23, 2018 India Block 0

University of Westminster graduate Ruth Pearn has designed a concept for a bathhouse, with a tampon recycling scheme, which would alleviate period poverty and combat stigma around menstruation. Pearn, who was tutored by Clare Carter, Gill Lambert and Nick Wood, designed The New Public Convenience: Hull’s Bath House & Lady Garden, as her graduate project on the

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London animal hospital respects the age-old rivalry between cats and dogs

August 11, 2018 Katie de Klee 0

Architecture studio Alma-nac has built a round-the-clock emergency hospital for pets, which is designed to keep cats and dogs away from each other. The first of its kind in the UK capital, The London Animal Hospital (TLAH) is designed to offer the best possible care for its animal patients, and to create a relaxing environment for the owners and

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