All Building Design articles in BD Magazine - Healthcare - March 2009
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FeaturesNew projects by Nightingale, ORMS and Penoyre & Prasad
A round-up of the latest healthcare news
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FeaturesQ&A with Toh Shimazaki on its healthcare work
Toh Shimazaki’s Yuli Toh explains how the practice finds space for architectural expression in its healthcare projects
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FeaturesLubetkin’s Finsbury Health Centre — the ideal that time forgot
Berthold Lubetkin’s Finsbury Health Centre was opened in 1938 with his assertion that “nothing was too good for ordinary people.” It was a pivotal moment in British social history that led to the development of the NHS. But now both the building and Lubetkin’s beliefs are under threat
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FeaturesThe latest products for healthcare buildings
LonmarkIntegrated control systemsJade BMS installed more than 80,000 integrated LonMark products at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough (pictured). They meet compatibility standards set by LonWorks. Sensing and controlling devices are integrated within large-scale developments. Compatible products controlling HVAC, lighting and alarms and so on, can be replaced or expanded ...
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FeaturesRIBA Bookshops’ selection of recent books on healthcare
Clare Kemsley, healthcare director at Gareth Hoskins Architects, reviews three books on healthcare design
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FeaturesMaggie’s Centre’s Laura Lee on the healing power of architecture
Laura Lee has commissioned some of the world’s top architects to design the Maggie’s Centres, and along the way she’s discovered the importance of architecture
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FeaturesCan architectural innovation be revived in large public-sector hospitals?
This month three architects consider the future of healthcare design
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Building StudyAHMM puts Kentish Town Health Centre in the picture
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has helped realise a pioneering medical practice’s ambition for a centre where health, medicine and art come together