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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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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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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.

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  • Hospital construction and management / by Frederic J. Mouat and H. Saxon Snell.
  • Hospital construction and management / by Frederic J. Mouat and H. Saxon Snell.
  • Construction, equipment, and management of a general hospital / by Donald J, Mackintosh.
  • Construction, equipment, and management of a general hospital / by Donald J, Mackintosh.
  • Construction, equipment, and management of a general hospital / by Donald J, Mackintosh.
  • Magdalen Hospital and Chapel, Winchester, Hampshire: with design and architectural sketches. Engraving by J. Basire, 1790, after J. Schnebbelie, 1788.
  • Qasr al-'Ayni Hospital and Medical School, Cairo: design for new buildings. Gouache after J. T. Cackett & R. Burns Dick, 1922.
  • Bede House (or Brother's Hospital), Stamford, Lincolnshire: architectural design plans and key. Transfer lithograph by J.R. Jobbins, 1857, after F.T. Dollman.
  • Hospitals and asylums of the world : their origin, history, construction, administration, management, and legislation; with plans of the chief medical institutions accurately drawn to a uniform scale, in addition to those of all the hospitals of London in the jubilee year of Queen Victoria's reign / by Henry C. Burdett.
  • Hospitals and asylums of the world : their origin, history, construction, administration, management, and legislation; with plans of the chief medical institutions accurately drawn to a uniform scale, in addition to those of all the hospitals of London in the jubilee year of Queen Victoria's reign / by Henry C. Burdett.
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