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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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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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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 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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  • Design for Hospital for Incurables, Scotland. Lithograph, 1874.
  • The Smallpox Hospital, Highgate, Middlesex: design drawing. Wood engraving by Laing, 1849, after S.A. Matthews.
  • Architectural scale design for Grey Frair's Hospital, Coventry. Transfer lithograph by J.R. Jobbins, 1856, after F.T. Dollman.
  • Bede House [or Brother's Hospital], Stamford, Licolnshire: design drawings. Transfer lithograph by J.R. Jobbins, 1857, after F.T. Dollman.
  • Magdalen Hospital and Chapel, Winchester, Hampshire: with design and architectural sketches. Engraving by J. Basire, 1790, after J. Schnebbelie, 1788.
  • Qasr al-'Ayni Hospital and Medical School, Cairo: design for new buildings. Gouache after J. T. Cackett & R. Burns Dick, 1922.
  • Bede House (or Brother's Hospital), Stamford, Lincolnshire: architectural design plans and key. Transfer lithograph by J.R. Jobbins, 1857, after F.T. Dollman.
  • Bede House [or Brother's Hospital], Stamford, Lincolnshire: design drawings of the porch with key. Transfer lithograph by J.R. Jobbins, 1857, after F.T. Dollman.
  • What's s special about the Lloyd Clinic? : concerned about sexually transmitted diseases, HIV/AIDS? / text by the Department of Genito-Urinary Medicine, Guys Hospital, London ; design by the Health Promotion Unit of Lewisham & North Southwark District.
  • What's s special about the Lloyd Clinic? : concerned about sexually transmitted diseases, HIV/AIDS? / text by the Department of Genito-Urinary Medicine, Guys Hospital, London ; design by the Health Promotion Unit of Lewisham & North Southwark District.
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