Stories
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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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How hospital care fails disabled bodies
Hospitals aim to make sick people well. But if the sick person is also disabled, the unbending nature of monolithic hospital systems can easily worsen the situation. Here Jamie Hale writes from painful personal experience.
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The making of ‘Quacks’
How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?
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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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Design drawings for Westminster and Chelsea Hospital: "Homely Frames"; "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour or An Orchestral Mnemonic"
Date: 1991Reference: ART/AFH/A/3/22aPart of: Arts for Health: archive- Archives and manuscripts
"Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Arts: Background"
Date: 1990sReference: ART/AFH/A/3/22Part of: Arts for Health: archive- Archives and manuscripts
Westminster and Chelsea Hospital, Arts for Health Project
Date: c.1993Reference: ART/AFH/A/25/9Part of: Arts for Health: archive- Pictures
The Anglo-Russian Hospital, Petrograd. Photograph album by and scrapbook by W.A. Propert, 1915-1917.
Propert, Walter Archibald.Date: 1915-1918Reference: 2000633i- Books
- Online
Standard psychiatric ward = [Title in Hebrew] / brief and planning consultant, Lore Bloch ; architects, M.T.P. - Gilead.
Israel. Miśrad ha-beriʼut. Planning Department.Date: 1974