All articles by John McRae, director ORMS

  • Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water in Lego
    Opinion

    So you want to be an architect?

    2013-11-04T06:50:00Z

    John McRae on how Lego, Alex Ferguson and oil painting can get you there

  • Dental practice in Gilching, Germany, by Günther and Schabert.
    Review

    A German solution to the challenges facing the NHS

    2011-07-18T08:27:00Z

    BookConstruction and Design Manual: Medical Practices by Dorte Becker and Philip MeuserDom Publishers, HB, 400 pages, 2010, £59.55In Germany, with the privatisation of healthcare, the role of the doctor has changed in recent years to become that of “health adviser”. With this change “clients” (the new term for patients) have ...

  • Quirón Hospital, Barcelona, Spain, by Pinearq SL.
    Review

    Should future hospitals be small towns?

    2011-07-18T08:26:00Z

    A work surveying the design of contemporary healthcare facilities posits hospitals as civic spaces but misses a few key examples