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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 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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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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Exploring Alvar Aalto’s Paimio Sanatorium

Seemingly small features help to make Alvar Aalto’s Paimio Sanatorium in Finland one healing element for the tuberculosis patients he designed it for.

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  • Cornerstone project, architects plans.
  • Hinxton architects plans, Sheppherd and Robson
  • Hinxton architects plans, Sheppherd and Robson
  • Almshouses in St. John's Wood Marylebone. Engraving from Architect's drawing. In course of erction at the time of publication. Architects John Pink and John St. Exlam.
  • H. Currey, Architect of St, Thomas's Hospital.
  • The Leeds School of Medicine. Architect, G. Corson.
  • Mercier, an architect. Drawing, c. 1793, after J. Morin.
  • Portrait of Woodward, architect of the Museum, Oxford. From a photograph.
  • A mason (architect) with the tools of his trade. Mezzotint by J. Gole after G.M. Mitelli.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution building, Euston Road, London: an elevation drawing signed by the architect, Septimus Warwick. Photograph.
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