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Dezeen Agenda features plans for first Ronald McDonald House in Ukraine

September 12, 2023 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features plans for the first Ronald McDonald House in Ukraine, which will be designed by Zikzak Architects. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. Zikzak Architects has unveiled its plans for the first Ronald McDonald House in Ukraine. The building will be used as temporary accommodation for children being

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Zikzak Architects reveals design for first Ronald McDonald House in Ukraine

September 8, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Ukrainian architecture studio Zikzak Architects has released its design for the first Ronald McDonald House in Ukraine, which will provide temporary housing to children receiving treatment at Kyiv’s Okhmatdyt hospital and their families. Zikzak Architects CEO Alesia Karnaukhova says the Ronald McDonald House in Kyiv “will become a second home for families of out-of-town children

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Hanczarstudio designs migraine treatment centre to be “devoid of stimuli”

August 22, 2023 Alice Laycock 0

From a muted colour palette to lights that are rarely switched on, the MIGRE treatment centre by Hanczarstudio in Wroclaw, Poland, was designed to help alleviate discomfort. Local design practice Hanczarstudio designed the interior of the MIGRE migraine treatment centre in Wroclaw, Poland, to deviate from traditional medical environments. “We wanted to create a space that

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Elkus Manfredi cuts openings into 1950s “concrete bunker” in Washington DC

August 21, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

A Cold War-era building designed to withstand nuclear blasts is among the structures that have been renovated by Elkus Manfredi Architects at the newly established Children’s National Research & Innovation Campus. The 12-acre (4.8-hectare) campus is located in northwest Washington DC and is part of the former site of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center,

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Mcmullin Studio designs garden room as “restorative haven”

August 12, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Wooden shingles clad this pod-like garden room by London practice Mcmullan Studio, which has been created for spinal-injury charity Horatio’s Garden. The small space was conceived by Mcmullan Studio as a “beautiful, immersive, restorative haven” for patients with spinal injuries at a hospital in Sheffield. It has large openings and a central circular skylight to create

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Benjamín Murúa Aquitectos creates underground sports centre in Chile

July 27, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Local architecture studio Benjamín Murúa Arquitectos has topped an underground sports centre with a dome in the Atacama desert in Chile. The sports facility is located on the campus of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Observatory, a research complex dedicated to the study of deep space. For the design of the complex, the studio was

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Shigeru Ban designs timber surgical centre for Ukraine’s war-wounded

July 24, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Japanese studio Shigeru Ban Architects and local studio AMBK have designed a cross-laminated timber expansion for Ukraine’s largest hospital, which is located in Lviv. Designed to increase hospital capacity in the country, the surgical centre was announced by the mayor of Lviv at the end of June at the Lviv Urban Forum. Construction of the extension

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Archekta and Ark-shelter complete cancer care centre in Belgium

April 12, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

A series of wood-lined communal spaces constructed from modular units form Warm Nest, a cancer care centre in Belgium by architecture studios Archekta and Ark-shelter. Operated by the hospital AZ Zeno near Bruges, Warm Nest is designed to be an inviting and comforting place for patients with cancer and their loved ones to come together.

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ZGF transforms Pittsburgh Ford Assembly plant into research facility

January 13, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Portland-based studio ZGF Architects has adapted a historic Ford Motor Company factory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania into a biomedical research laboratory by renovating existing structures and creating a cantilevered terracotta-clad addition. ZGF – working with development group Wexford Science & Technology – reimagined the 224,866-square foot (20,890-square metre) factory to house state-of-the-art research labs, collaborative spaces,and community

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Polycarbonate-wrapped rescue shelter by Garrison Architects maximises light for animals

December 16, 2022 James Brillon 0

NYC-based firm Garrison Architects has completed an animal shelter in Staten Island, which is wrapped in full-height glass walls that provide even lighting conditions throughout the day. The Staten Island Animal Rescue Center is located in Charleston, a neighbourhood in the New York City borough of Staten Island. It was completed earlier this year and

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