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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.

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The Key to Memory: Write it down

Nick Dent explores what the Library of the Human Genome can tell us about how and why we remember.

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How I escaped my anxiety and depression through architecture and poetry

Social anxiety led him to introversion and silence. The brutalist architecture of London’s Barbican Estate inspired his liberation in poetry.

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Vivid nights, dream-filled days

Each night, intense and memorable dreams create another life for Katie da Cunha Lewin. Find out how her waking and dreaming selves have become enmeshed, allowing her powerful self-knowledge.

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  • Architecture: designs for helical (spiral) staircases with twisted iron reinforcing bars. Lithograph by Dunn & Wright.
  • Christ Church, Oxford: staircase to the Hall. Etching.
  • Brentwood District Hospital, Essex: the staircase. Process print, 1929.
  • Architecture: various details of staircase design. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Women's hospital, Cádiz: 18th century staircase. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • Architecture: a dog-leg staircase and details. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Architecture: the geometry of a curved staircase. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Hospital San Juan de Diós, Granada: the staircase. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • Eastman Dental Hospital, London: a view of the staircase. Process print, 1926.
  • Hospice de la Charité, Rheims, France: staircase. Lithograph by A. Dauzats after himself.
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