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High spirits despite the hailstorms
Day One 9th March: After the early start the baton passed from team to team as the C2C whirred along minor roads, passing the war graves and heavy ploughed fields of the Somme. The sheer organisational achievement of Peter Murray and Claire Norton became apparent as support vehicles, riders, ...
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FeaturesTough as trolleys
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.
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FeaturesScrubs up well
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
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FeaturesProduct news
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 ...
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FeaturesSupplier interview
‘The idea of using silver to kill bacteria isn’t a new one’ Sarah Spink, Liquid Plastics Hygiene Market Manager
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FeaturesEnvironmental health professor Richard Jackson
‘Architects like evidence to support what they know intuitively’
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FeaturesNewcomers to create ‘healing environments’
“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.
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FeaturesStylish council’s low-rise legacy
Date October 1981Location Islington, LondonArchitect Islington councilUnlike neighbouring Hackney or Tower Hamlets, the London Borough of Islington never went down the high-rise route, and instead set about commissioning some of the country’s best housing architects to replace its massive slums, some with densities of over 250 people per hectare. By ...
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FeaturesCan private clients restore hospital design to health?
Whenever a new healthcare building is praised for good design, the unspoken addendum of “good for healthcare” is left hanging in the air.
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FeaturesSmartening up PFI budgets
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.
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FeaturesBlowing hot and cold
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.
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FeaturesIs culture or environment to blame for sickness in the NHS?
The National Health Service: much praised around the world, but never copied. But at least we lead the world in irony.
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FeaturesHealing artists
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?
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Features‘‘Approach it in the same way as any public building”
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