Stories
- Article
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.
- In pictures
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.
- Article
The building as tool of healing
When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.
- Article
How architecture builds a profession of stress
Architects might produce buildings that enhance our health, but at what cost? Kristin Hohenadel explores architecture’s pressurised and stressful culture.
Catalogue
- Pictures
Some of the buildings of Guy's Hospital, seen from the pavement outside. Photograph.
Reference: 37936i- Journals
- Online
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Structures and buildings
Date: 1992-- Archives and manuscripts
Corporate photography shoots C0000282 - C0000327
Date: 1994-1995Reference: WT/B/11/1/7Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
A guide to hospital building in Ontario.
Date: [1954], ©1954- Books
Improving healthcare with better building design / Sara O. Marberry, editor.
Date: [2006]