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.
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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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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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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.
Catalogue
- Pictures
Some of the buildings of Guy's Hospital, seen from the pavement outside. Photograph.
Reference: 37936i- Books
A guide to hospital building in Ontario.
Date: [1954], ©1954- Books
Improving healthcare with better building design / Sara O. Marberry, editor.
Date: [2006]- Books
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Healthy hospitals : observations on some points connected with hospital construction / by Sir Douglas Galton ; with illustration.
Galton, Douglas Strutt, 1822-1899.Date: 1893- Books
Operating theatre suites / Ministry of Health, Department of Health for Scotland.
Date: 1957