Stories
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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.
- 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.
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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.
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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.
Catalogue
- Journals
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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
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Modern American school buildings : being a treatise upon, and designs for, the construction of school buildings / by Warren Richard Briggs, F.A.I.A ; with 89 full-page illustrations.
Briggs, Warren Richard.Date: 1899- Books
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Comments on some plans of hospital construction / by Hermann M. Biggs.
Biggs, Hermann M.Date: 1912- Archives and manuscripts
Press cuttings and correspondence concerning Margaret Lowenfeld's articles on design of nursery schools, published in Building, Nov. 1945-1946
Date: 20/4/1945 - 1/2/1946Reference: PP/LOW/O/Z/3Part of: Margaret Lowenfeld