All Building Design articles in BD Magazine - Healthcare - March 07

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  • Features

    Tough as trolleys

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    British Gypsum will next month launch GypWall Extreme, a partition wall system made to cope with the impact of trolleys or hospital equip-ment, as well as wear and tear from patients and staff.

  • The ‘surgical’ white and green cladding.
    Features

    Scrubs up well

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Functional but dull was the verdict on UCL Hospital, but architects Bert McCabe and Heather Willars of Llewelyn Davies Yeang return to find it full of life

  • San Giobbe Hospital
    Features

    Retrospect

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Healthcare News and products from the archive

  • Features

    The speed read

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    The Architecture of hospitals Cor Wagenarr (Editor), NAi publishers £40

  • Follow the rainbow
    Features

    Product news

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • Silver Ion coatings were used at RAF Lakenheath General Hospital.
    Features

    Supplier interview

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    ‘The idea of using silver to kill bacteria isn’t a new one’ Sarah Spink, Liquid Plastics Hygiene Market Manager

  • The System 600 rafts integrate acoustic absorption, central luminaires, fire detectors and daylight sensors.
    Features

    Total exposure

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Ceiling lighting system allows concrete soffits to be fully revealed

  • Richard Jackson
    Features

    Environmental health professor Richard Jackson

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    ‘Architects like evidence to support what they know intuitively’

  • Building Study

    A garden for England

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    A serene, green courtyard is the at the heart of Steffian Bradley’s Gravesham Community Hospital in Kent

  • Features

    Dutch design

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    New town seeks bold health plan

  • Evelina Children’s Hospital is Hopkins Architects’ first healthcare building.
    Features

    Newcomers to create ‘healing environments’

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    “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.

  • Elaine Knutt
    Features

    Can private clients restore hospital design to health?

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Whenever a new healthcare building is praised for good design, the unspoken addendum of “good for healthcare” is left hanging in the air.

  • A wall of coloured ceramic tiles is set back from the building line at ground floor level.
    Building Study

    Lift and celebrate

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    In a south-west London suburb, Penoyre & Prasad has negotiated its way through a complex contract and NHS regulations to deliver a striking uplift in design standards

  • NBBJ’s outline design for Southmead.
    Features

    Smartening up PFI budgets

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • The zinc-clad facade matches the sandstone tenements in scale.
    Features

    Blowing hot and cold

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Features

    Is culture or environment to blame for sickness in the NHS?

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    The National Health Service: much praised around the world, but never copied. But at least we lead the world in irony.

  • Mungo Smith
    Features

    The big question

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Can a heathcare building building win The Stirling Prize?

  • Principal Gareth Hoskins (right) and project director Chris Coleman-Smith (left).
    Features

    Healing artists

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    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?

  • (Left to right) Daryl Murphy, James Philipp and Simon Warren
    Features

    ‘‘Approach it in the same way as any public building”

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    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

  • The Groupe6-designed Centre Hospitalier Sud-Francilien in Paris is currently on site.
    Features

    BDP and Groupe6 join forces overseas

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    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.