Stories
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Florence Nightingale, Victorian design and the treatment of Covid-19
Discover how the design of Britain’s Nightingale hospitals, set up during the first national lockdown, is based closely on Florence Nightingale’s pioneering ideas for the most effective hospital layout.
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Designing better mental health wards
Bringing colour and natural light to tired, grubby mental health wards has a measurably positive effect on patients. A few groundbreaking projects are showing the way.
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The art of soundproof design
Too much noise is more than annoying – it has serious negative effects on health and cognitive ability. Find out how designers and architects are mitigating the downsides of sound.
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Designing death in the virtual city
Danger and death are fun when they’re virtual – and when they incorporate realistic elements. Now the tables are turned, as urban planners learn from game environments.
Catalogue
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Laboratory design, construction, and renovation : participants, process, and product / Committee on Design, Construction, and Renovation of Laboratory Facilities; Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology; Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications; National Research Council.
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Design, Construction, and Renovation of Laboratory Facilities.Date: [2000], ©2000- Journals
Journal of healthcare design : proceedings from the ... Symposium on Healthcare Design.
Date: 1992-1998- Books
Facilities for cancer care centres : design and briefing guidance / NHS Estates.
NHS Estates.Date: 2001
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Medical education facilities / prepared by Public Health Service, in cooperation with the Ad Hoc Committee on the Design of University Teaching Hospitals of the Association of American Medical Colleges, the American Medical Association, the American Hospital Association, and the Public Health Service.
United States. Public Health Service. Division of Hospital and Medical Facilities.Date: [1964]
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Design and construction of general hospitals : a definitive study of the physical aspects of the hospital plant in relation to its function / prepared by Federal Security Agency, Public Health Service, Division of Hospital Facilities.
United States. Public Health Service. Division of Hospital and Medical Facilities.Date: [1947?]